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
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“I cannot grasp the magnitude of your evil” “Proof that you lack imagination” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
“I grew up using my imagination to make reality work for me. In order to make a connection with reality, I made… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
“There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. — Robert Toth Copy Share Image
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must have the willpower to overcome life. Overcoming the problems you face is vital. Imagination and desire are two different things.… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the… — William Carlos WIlliams Copy Share Image
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having… — Zoe Tapper Copy Share Image
“Joey was lying by the stream one afternoon after a hard day. He had been in trouble at school because he had… — Ellen J. Lewinberg Copy Share Image
Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.” — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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