Quotes About Imagination

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.