Quotes About Inspiration

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

Imagination is the greatest nation in the world!

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Imagination needs to be fed.

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.