Quotes About Imagination

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.