Regina Spektor Quotes

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

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

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

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

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

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Reality doesn't interest me.

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.

Movies are different from real life.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Some stories are true that never happened.

History is a fiction which actually happened; fiction is history which could have happened.

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

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

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.

The moment there is imagination there is myth