Quotes About Imagination

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

Images split the truth in fractions.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

John Lennon, Beatles Lyrics

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

All Stories are True.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.