you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination…

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

— Samuel Goldwyn

“I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds…

— Q-Tip

“None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea…

— Bert Dodson

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

— Josh McDermitt

“What, then, is active imagination? In practice it’s exactly what Jung did in his visions and conversations with inner figures such as Philemon, Ka,…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination.…

— Jeff Mangum

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

— Carl Jung

“You are never too old to have an active imagination.”

— Carla Reighard

I've always had an active imagination.

— Rickie Lee Jones

“Anyone who does creative work is familiar with this problem, and in many ways active imagination is similar to writing, painting, and so on;…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

“I try to distract myself from reality by wielding an active imagination. Then I have nightmares.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time,…

— Charles Dickens