Quotes About Imagination

Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps.

She ain't a fact and neither do she make a good story when you tell about her.

She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.

Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made.

he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon.

But nothin' can stop you from wishin'.

Hurston did make significant parts of herself up, like a masquerader putting on a disguise for the ball, like a character in her fictions.

That which she chooses to reveal is the life of her imagination, as it sought to mold and interpret her environment.

After all the imagination is a beautiful thing.

We sat up in the trees and disputed about what the end of the world would be like when we got there—whether it was sort of tucked under like the hem of a dress, or just was a sharp drop off into nothingness.

She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image

Zora," George Thomas informed me, "you come to de right place if lies is what you want. Ah'm gointer lie up a nation." Charlie Jones said, "Yeah, man. Me and my sworn buddy Gene Brazzle is here. Big Moose done come down from de mountain." "Now, you gointer hear lies above suspicion," Gene added.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I try to picture my books being acted out.

I was always toying with the idea of acting.