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Quotes About Inspiration

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
~ Anne Waldman
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
~ William Blake
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
~ Cory Booker
Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.
~ Paul McCabe
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
~ Charles Keating, Jr.
Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
~ Terence McKenna
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.
~ J. G. Ballard
The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.
~ Tim Girvin
What better way to expand your imagination than to read!
~ Laura Marano
Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.
~ Sol Saks
Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
~ Michael Scott
Imagination comes of not having things.
~ LeRoy Neiman
The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
~ Wallace Stevens
If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.
~ Hiroko Sakai
What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
~ Lynda Barry, What It Is
Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
~ Sara Sheridan
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
~ David E. Kelley
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
~ Salman Rushdie
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
~ Steve Wozniak
Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
~ Nick Hornby, About a Boy
This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
~ Tom Hanks