Quotes About Imagination

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.