I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer… — MC Lars Copy Share Image
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on… — Eminem Copy Share Image
On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative… — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
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