Quotes About Imagination

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you will be, and what everyone else is or was or will be, too.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

When I look at 'Fallen Angels,' I realize it is not a film that is truly about Hong Kong. It's more like my Hong Kong fantasy. I want Hong Kong to be quiet, with less people.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

As a kid, I really, truly believed that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, something really bad was going to happen.

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit.

I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.

I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.

It truly amazes me all the things you can add and mix in to truly transform a plain old bowl of oatmeal.

Film is a truly magical medium.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete.

The fun of that sci-fi and adventure stuff is that it's always somebody who's not believed and is not being trusted. If you saw an alien walk across the street, who are you gonna tell? Who would believe you?

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.