The truth was probably better than whatever Alfred might dredge up out of his imagination.
Make all kinds of critters, some out of our imagination.
It was as though she had conjured the man out of her imagination.
This was no tale out of a novelist's fertile imagination.
But she's never been able to create images out of her imagination.
Like his other books, they were "out of my imagination."
Obviously, too, their story is gushing out of my imagination.
Also many gaps had to come out of my imagination.
As a writer, you tend to want to make characters live out of your own imagination.
You form an illusion drawn out of your imagination and force the spirit into it.