Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“No woman can fully understand nor appreciate her femininity without the help of a man, even if he only exists in her… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“As Grams treaded water, she tapped my forehead. 'What's in here, Poppy, is scarier than anything you'll encounter in the depths of… — Shelley Coriell Copy Share Image
Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside… — David Foster Copy Share Image
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
“I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing;… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
