Quotes About Imagination

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer's life after they are 20. By then they've experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.