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Quotes About Imagination

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
~ E. M. Forster
I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.
~ Edward Snowden
Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'
~ Edwin Land
I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.
~ Eli Roth
I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.
~ Ellen Schreiber
I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!
~ Erin McKeown
It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.
~ Erin Morgenstern
I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.
~ Ester Dean
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
~ Etgar Keret
With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want
~ F.E. Higgins
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
~ Felicia Day
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
~ Fernando Pessoa
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
~ Frances Hardinge
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
~ Frances Hardinge
I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
~ Francesca Lia Block
I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.
~ Francisco Goldman
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.
~ Francois Arago
Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.
~ Frank Gehry
When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.
~ Franka Potente
Your name's now Limp. Aye, not very imaginative, but it's like this. If you can't hear Hood laughing, well, I can.
~ Steven Erikson
we fight every battle with our imaginations: the battles within, the battles in the world beyond. This is the truth of command, and a warrior must learn command, of oneself and of others. It
~ Steven Erikson
What I, Karsa Orlong, shall shape, you cannot imagine. No one can.
~ Steven Erikson
False visions of the world were a child's right, not something to be resented, but neither were they worthy of any adult sense of longing.
~ Steven Erikson
Dreams can be naught but an imagination's fashioning of its own fears
~ Steven Erikson