The Imagination Quotes

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

To get into the character you have to really use your imagination.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

Imagination is the mad boarder.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

Simply unleashing our imaginations can be empowering.

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.