I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer… — John Irving Copy Share Image
As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall… — Brian Jacques 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
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I, Horus, son of Osiris, claim the throne of the heavens as my birthright!" he shouted."What was once mine shall be mine… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise. If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus, but in my… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world.… — Will Smith 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
A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Karen Marie Moning 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 want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla 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
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
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I… — Fernando Pessoa 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
When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
![“How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e1/nikola-tesla-1383_america_how-extraordinary-was-my-life-an-inciden_276209.jpg)
![“[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations...” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e0/paul-lockhart-18353_can-do_math-is-not-at-all-like-science-there-s_140084.jpg)
![“[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I…” quote by Muriel Spark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f3/muriel-spark-4228_accomplices_my-novel-took-up-the-sweetest-part-of-my_1474468.jpg)
![“Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of…” quote by Christopher Nolan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fd/christopher-nolan-2670_cinema_chris-nolan-and-i-have-a-strange-way-of_2310909.jpg)
