Quotes About Imagination

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.