Quotes About Imagination

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.