Quotes about Imagination

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Mark Twain

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.

Everything in a dream is more deep and strong and real than is ever its pale imitation in the unreal life which is ours when we go awake and clothed with our artificial selves in this vague and dull-tinted artificial world.