Quotes About Imagination

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn't imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn't really imagine it hadn't.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.