Creativity Quote by Heidi Julavits

“I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even…

— Kimberly Nalen

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“Without imagination & dreams, we lose the excitement of wonderful possibilities.”

— Cynthia Roberts

“It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.”

— Dale Carnegie

“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the…

— Brandy Purdy

“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while…

— Matthew Kirby

“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“There is no imagination in the world. A person like me is basically alone. If I want to live in the same world as…

— Victor Lodato

“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find, life gives…

— Marcel Proust

“In this universe if we’re lucky, we will live in our children’s stories, their tales that will turn us to legend, some absurd truth…

— Jeanne Lohmann

“I liked these short stories so much, but I couldn’t write like this, I didn’t have the imagination. I didn’t have any imagination at…

— Karl Ove Knausgård