Imagination Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image ““A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine.”” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination
“When I imagined somebody whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“If you don't use your imagination someone else will use it for you.” — Ron Sukenick Copy Share Image
“Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“But I held her in my heart, and would stay with her all my days, even if a great many of them were trying… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“You don’t like me, do you?” she asked suddenly and pathetically, just like a small child. Sergei did not look at her but merely… — William Axtell Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image