Quotes About Imagination

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

Art has absolutely changed my life.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

Any film is at least better than real life.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.