Quotes About Imagination

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

There's no shortage of material in life.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

Movies are different from real life.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.