Quotes About Imagination

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.

I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.