You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury 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
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?” — Sherley Mondesir-Prescott Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others. — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in… — Richard Louv 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 grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“To picture the desert as a place where trees are capable of growing is an act of faith.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
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