Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. — Ursula K. Le Guin
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,'… — Ray Bradbury
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination… — Clive Barker
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to… — Tom Robbins
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain… — Oscar Wilde
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that. — Stephen King
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your… — Charles Baxter
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… — Fernando Pessoa
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased.… — Mortimer Adler
A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of… — Kristin Chenoweth
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they… — Harper Lee
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in… — Sylvia Plath
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. — Oscar Wilde
They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids… — Ellen Potter
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. — Alan Moore
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined… — Margaret Atwood
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? — Jeanette Winterson
In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated… — Adam Young
I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal… — Willa Cather
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children —… — J I Packer
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in… — Philip Pullman
...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that. — John Connolly
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a… — Gaston Bachelard

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