I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my… — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's… — Regina Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination.… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then,… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that."… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique… — Jeff Coffin Copy Share Image
Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Is it my imagination, or is there some kind of jealousy thing going on here?"-Inuyasha (gives Inuyasha a really bad look)"It's your… — Rumiko Takahashi Copy Share Image
I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it,… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination.… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
