Imagination Quotes

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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here.… — Paul Wolfowitz
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent… — Ai Weiwei
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled… — Karen Armstrong
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can… — Gary Ross
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam,… — Andre Dubus III
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for… — Iain Sinclair
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your… — Florence Welch
The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is. — Roy Horn
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught… — Anne Fadiman
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from… — Daniel Tammet
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich… — Christopher Paolini
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and… — Lynn Nottage
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little… — Raymond Carver
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs… — Vikas Swarup
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no… — John Burdett
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher
When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and… — Nat Turner
Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess — Samuel Johnson

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