If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard? — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
From fiction, you do not get to learn much because it is only imagination. Whereas, from non-fiction, people can understand and learn… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I… — Katlyn Charlesworth Copy Share Image
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together.… — C. Alexander London Copy Share Image
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The imagination opens out not principally to what it knows and finds familiar, but to what it does not know, what it… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet Copy Share Image
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination. — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.” — William Fritz Copy Share Image
I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality. — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
“Imagination can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. — Percy Ross Copy Share Image
Only your imagination sets the limits for what you can do with your life, make sure that every moment counts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps the mind sharp and gives me the opportunity to exercise my imagination to engage the reader,” — Ruth Ford Elward Copy Share Image
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Painting imparts new wings And my mind soars high; Imagination glitters the alleys of my mind And I fly, fly, fly...” — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
