--- title: "10 Imagination Doesn Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 10 Imagination Doesn quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Imagination Doesn sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/lionel-suggs-1621_different-world_imagination-doesn-t-always-mean-looking_3170094.jpg" --- > [“Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-suggs/imagination-doesn-t-always-mean-looking-outside-of-the-box-but-taking/) [Lionel Suggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-suggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/lionel-suggs-1621_different-world_imagination-doesn-t-always-mean-looking_3170094.jpg) > [When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn't necessarily grow old with you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-bricusse/when-you-live-in-a-world-of-imagination-your-imagination-doesn-t/) [Leslie Bricusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-bricusse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e36/leslie-bricusse-27152_grow_when-you-live-in-a-world-of-imagination_3094115.jpg) > [My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonse-daudet/my-imagination-doesn-t-require-anything-more-of-the-book-than-to/) [Alphonse Daudet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonse-daudet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3c/alphonse-daudet-37121_book_my-imagination-doesn-t-require-anything_2415484.jpg) > [Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/imagination-doesn-t-always-make-you-long-for-what-you-cannot-have-but/) [Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d81/criss-jami-320_contentment_imagination-doesn-t-always-make-you-long_946805.jpg) > [When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-pierre-jeunet/when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-escape-from-my-family-with-my-imagination/) [Jean-Pierre Jeunet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-pierre-jeunet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/jean-pierre-jeunet-18813_adult-life_when-i-was-a-kid-i-used-to-escape-from-m_2107403.png) > [“One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/one-of-the-many-things-i-have-always-loved-about-writing-not-to-be/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/roxane-gay-520_anonymity_one-of-the-many-things-i-have-always-lov_2185790.png) > [“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-suggs/people-won-t-see-imagination-in-something-that-doesn-t-relate-to/) [Lionel Suggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-suggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/lionel-suggs-1621_books_people-won-t-see-imagination-in-somethin_3172821.jpg) > [“Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/do-the-books-that-writers-don-t-write-matter-it-s-easy-to-forget-them/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aea/julian-barnes-522_bad-idea_do-the-books-that-writers-don-t-write-ma_553536.jpg) > [Life is a tragic game, filled with misery. Yet we never persist to change, but we never change ourselves. The thing sad,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/life-is-a-tragic-game-filled-with-misery-yet-we-never-persist-to/) [Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/jeremy-limn-301_anxiety-and-fear_life-is-a-tragic-game-filled-with-misery_1720051.jpg) > [Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-wynne-jones/imagination-doesn-t-just-mean-making-things-up-it-means-thinking/) [Diana Wynne Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-wynne-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/373/diana-wynne-jones-1486_able_imagination-doesn-t-just-mean-making-thi_2080025.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagination-doesn/#itemlist", "name": "Imagination Doesn Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lionel Suggs" }, "url": 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It doesn't matter who you are, you can write. Your looks, especially, don't matter.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roxane Gay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/one-of-the-many-things-i-have-always-loved-about-writing-not-to-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/roxane-gay-520_anonymity_one-of-the-many-things-i-have-always-lov_2185790.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/roxane-gay-520_anonymity_one-of-the-many-things-i-have-always-lov_2185790.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/roxane-gay-520_anonymity_one-of-the-many-things-i-have-always-lov_2185790.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all…” — Roxane Gay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. 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It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing but bad ideas, justly abandoned projects, embarrassing first thoughts. It needn't be so: first thoughts are often best, cheeringly rehabilitated by third thoughts after they've been loured at by seconds. Besides, an idea isn't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test. The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. 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