Creativity Quote by Jennifer Gilmore Download Open image “History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.” — Jennifer Gilmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity History Imagination My own Release
It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric,… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant,… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter 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
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer 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
