Quotes About Imagination

Don't think. Imagine. Imagination is the firebed of a novel

When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else.

A good novel is like a fairy tale, a movie, a play, a jazz piece & a symphony resonating in the mind, each in its own way.

A writer's most potent tools are the inner mind and the shameless courage to explore it.

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

We are a species hungry for illusion. A powerful illusion not only convinces us it's real, it becomes more meaningful to us than reality.

I, on the other hand, hoped Ava would never grow up. In my eyes, the fact that she didn't yet know what words meant, and had no concept of herself as something distinct from anything else, made her the greatest show on earth.

Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures.

Sex is the theory; porn is the practice.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie.

If a man finishes a poem,he shall bathe in the blank wake of his passionand be kissed by white paper.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the watersand drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt.Now you look down. The waters of childhood are there.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

Do what I sometimes do when I get scared: imagine you're someone else, someone who's far braver and smarter.

Maybe that's all it takes for the future to exist, Pino thought. You must imagine it first. You must dream it first.

Pino shrugged. "Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella." Mimo snorted. "You do live in a fantasy world." They

Pino closed his eyes and tried to go with the music, which was as gentle and playful as a summer stream. He tried to imagine the stream, tried to find peace in it, and sleep, and nothingness.

She closed her eyes, tried to go far away to that mythical green valley in her mind, tried to see it with rainbows in a clearing sky after a summer rain.

was mentally creating a God in the image and likeness of humans.

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.