The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no safest place in this world than that peaceful world you created with your imagination. There is no safest relationship… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take… — Alice Smith Copy Share Image
I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As… — Pierre Coupey Copy Share Image
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“I hate the assumption that you can’t write about something because you haven’t experienced it, and not just because it assumes a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real,… — Ray Harryhausen Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of Heaven is within and it lies beyond your wildest imagination, so expect a roller coaster ride to get there!” — Carl J. Painter Copy Share Image
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination - it keeps you in shape, and… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem,… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it. — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
I think radio's a beautiful thing, because it's all about the imagination, and it's all about the capability of the performer being… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. — John Stott Copy Share Image
