Quotes About Imagination

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.

My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.