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I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

— Terry Brooks

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

— Ron Rash

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

— Lloyd Alexander

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

— Lynn Flewelling

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

— Mackenzie Davis

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

— Herbert Simon

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

— Leslie Banks

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

— Philip K. Dick

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

✗Opposing Perspectives

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

— Brent Spiner