Imaginative Quotes · Page 2

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

— Colum McCann

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

— William Blake

What matters is the imaginative truth.

— Edna O'Brien

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

— Khaled Hosseini

“One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative.”

— Jesse Thompson

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

— Tony Gilroy

I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.

— Ethan Slater

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

— Willa Cather

“What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.”

— Doug Cooper

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

— Cass Sunstein

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

— John Connolly

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

— R. S. Thomas

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the…

— Roger Ballen

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

— Philip Yancey

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

— Neil Gaiman

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

I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense,…

— Dave McKean

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer,…

— Gordon S. Wood

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative…

— William Wordsworth

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

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care…

— Jonathan Demme

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It…

— Arnold Bennett

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least…

— Marina Warner

Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry…

— Mike W. Barr

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and…

— Jonathan Kozol

It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love…

— Sister Parish

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

— Jasper Fforde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

— Oscar Wilde

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

— Herman Wouk

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

— Margot Asquith

“Anything can be a weapon in imaginative hands.”

— Jane Prowse

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

— Fred D'Aguiar