Quotes About Imagination

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Imagination and reality have little in common

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

How can you read this? There's no pictures!" "Well, some people use their imagination." – Gaston & Belle

Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.