Quotes About Imagination

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

You have to invent life.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.