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Quotes About Imagination

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
~ Brad Bird
I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.
~ Gary Oldman
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
~ Edward de Bono
I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.
~ Tom Waits
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.
~ Michael Grant
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.
~ Mignon G. Eberhart
All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.
~ Joseph Plaskett
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
~ Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
~ Rosamund Pike
To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.
~ Marina Warner
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.
~ Neil Gaiman
I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.
~ Francisco Costa
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
~ Katherine Paterson
What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.
~ Kate DiCamillo
In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
~ Don DeLillo
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
~ Flannery O'Connor