Randy Newman Quotes

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.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

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.

I have a lot of fantasy.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

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

I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.

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

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

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

What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.