They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.
Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!
There's nothing more dangerous than a place that doesn't exist.
Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.
Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.
Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?
I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they're happening.
I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the myths associated with colonialism, the reality is very different.
All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang.
