Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it.

[The Nazis] obliterated much of my history.

Books allowed my imagination to take flight - and it hasn't landed yet

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age.
We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.