“I think a beautiful mind is a imaginative one. Free of social pollutions or boring restrictions of thought.” — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. — George Henry Lewes 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
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life. — Karen X. Tulchinsky 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
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
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the… — Charles Baxter 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
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,… — Alain Robbe-Grillet 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
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.… — Joost Meerloo 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
Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
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
“I trust it will be believed that an explorer may be an imaginative as well as a practical creature. ” — Ernest Giles Copy Share Image
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
“About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.” — Belinda Jack Copy Share Image
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson Copy Share Image
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges. — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue! — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
