Quotes About Imagination

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.