Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary… — Lights Copy Share Image
You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“With what characters she had filled this lost stage of emptiness! It was here that she would see the people of her… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human… — Jerome Ravetz Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.” — Al Stone Copy Share Image
“If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are or what you've been through realize in this life there is nothing that you cannot do" Imagine… — Yanatha Desouvre Copy Share Image
I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing,… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Live-action movies are all about looking as real as possible, making you believe, 'I really am on Mars,' or, 'I really am… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and… — Les Baxter Copy Share Image
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Gonzo . . . acidic hilarity . . . 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story.… — Janet Maslin Copy Share Image
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may… — Steve Kanaly Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain where ideas come from. They're an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it's… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
