Imaginative Quotes · Page 5

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged…

— Janet Burroway

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

— Christopher Bram

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

— Hugo Gernsback

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

— Moira Kelly

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

— Tom Riley

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form -…

— Richard K. Morgan

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest…

— G. M. Trevelyan

My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In…

— James Arthur

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new…

— Mairead Corrigan

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in…

— Walter Bagehot

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or…

— George R. R. Martin

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals…

— Catherine Wilson

A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not…

— Edward Norton

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all…

— Walt Whitman

“Today, fantasy is, for better or for worse, just another genre, a place in a bookshop to find books that, too often,…

— Neil Gaiman

It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love…

— Sister Parish

“Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth…

— Pauline Fisk

While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done…

— Walter Brueggemann

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

— Margaret Haddix

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who…

— Paul Goodman

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Most of my music is reflective, imaginative. A lot of it is about how I'm going to feel in the future.

— Masego

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the…

— Bede Griffiths

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

— Richard Dyer

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as…

— Charles Leadbeater

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little…

— George Richard Marek

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

— Franz Boas

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

— Karen Armstrong

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

— Shaun McNiff

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

— Denis Waitley

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

— Alexander Chase