Quotes About Imagination

A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.

I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

an artist is about condensing ideas into time.

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

Darling! Had they darlinged each other when they were here? I imagined them, magnificent on horseback, tossing darlings to and fro.

You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose.

I've been thinking," said the Eldric image. "Ooh, thinking!" I said. "Shall I tell your father?" "Very funny," said Eldric, but he was laughing.

Interestingly, to be considered creative, it is not enough that an idea is new. To say that 4 + 4 = 35,372 is definitely original, but it hardly qualifies as creative.

I should constantly remind myself that the real leap consists in introducing invention into existence. In the world in which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. And it is by going beyond the historical, instrumental hypothesis that I will initiate my cycle of freedom.

It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments.

The first power that meets us at the threshold of the soul's domain is the power of imag­ination.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Il cielo era così ardentemente nudo, che anche solo l'immagine di un fiocco di nube sarebbe sembrata l'invenzione di un cantastorie.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.

An actor, to spend his entire life as an actor, has to have the mind of a child. A writer at sixty can be a Steinbeck, a Faulkner, or a Hemingway. An actor at sixty can make a funny face or do a creaky dance. The actor lives a reasonable-facsimile existence while cavorting in an unreal world. The value of an actor's services are determined by the needs of another person.

And in the end, children; Art prevailed over the cruel, dumb-fuckers.

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