Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they… — Sebastian Horsley 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
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 would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece. — Franz Grillparzer 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
You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think! — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. — Leslie Banks 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've been trying to redefine fragrance since I was a child - before I was ten. Throughout my life, certain fragrance notes… — Lolita Lempicka Copy Share Image
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new… — Steve Martin 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
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
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