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Quotes About Imagination

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
~ S. E. Hinton
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
~ Sarah Curran
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.
~ Stevie Wonder
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
~ Sue Townsend
Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.
~ Thom Yorke
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
~ Tom Robbins
Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.
~ Trina Schart Hyman
All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.
~ Garrison Keillor
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
~ Gene Simmons
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
~ Grace Paley
[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.
~ H. L. Mencken
Art without life is a poor affair.
~ Henry James
It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.
~ Ian Somerhalder
I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.
~ James Garner
Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.
~ James Taylor
There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.
~ Jodie Foster
I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.
~ John Flansburgh
I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
~ John Updike
I have always come to life after coming to books.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
Your dreams should never be better than your real life
~ Karl Pilkington