Quotes About Imagination

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

Dreams are the directions to the rest of your life!

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.

I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.