Quotes About Imagination

focus on what could be rather than on what might have been.

Mine your words as if digging for diamonds and gold.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Truth is shorter than fiction.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.

Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Normal people do not create art.

On croit que j'imagine — ce n'est pas vrai — je me souviens. [They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

If you talk about it, you probably won't write it

menulislah setiap hari, berpura-pura bahwa kau menerima gaji, berpura-pura bahwa kau harus menyerahkan sesuatu atau dipecat

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You're a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You're twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you'd have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth

No one responds to the newness of new things like children.

I imagined myself in the Jewish Self-Defence League