Quotes About Imagination

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

Make believe I'm right.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Go to bed! Someone is anxious to come into your dream.

Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.

Cara: *Flies*Gen: What? I don't have wings!Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

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