Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination. — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination. — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
