Alfred de Vigny Quotes

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Illusion never changed into something real.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Movies are different from real life.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.