Life Quote by Jodi Picoult

“What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

“It was hard to believe that once upon a time, she had been afraid of pretend things. The real world was pretty darn scary…

— Nancy Holder

“It was all your imagination. And imagination is sometimes worse than reality…”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales

“Most stories are based on something real.”

— Paula Weston

“What is more terrifying-- the things we imagine or the things that are real?”

— Suzanne Selfors

“I try to distract myself from reality by wielding an active imagination. Then I have nightmares.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.”

— Lois Lowry

“Imagination and the pure delight in stories drive out fear.”

— Anonymous

“One can believe in a story without believing it happened.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of…

— Stephen King

“But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales