Imagine Quote by John Irving Download Open image “Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagine Learning Remember Stories
“I don’t think that story communicates the point you seem to imagine it does.” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“What you imagine is what you remember, and what you remember is what you’re left with. So why not decide to imagine it a… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“He remembered that part like you’d remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn’t like… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Imagine the story you would most want to read, and then shamelessly write it.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“That is my story. Believe what you will. I remember it all; I remember it still.” — Mili Fay Copy Share Image
“Because if he knew, then it had been real, not a nightmare I could just write off as my imagination. Like how talking to… — Lisa Ko Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show. — Cameron Dallas 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
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
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