Quotes about Imagination

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

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Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size.

I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquefy and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame; and then I would find that I had forgotten the name of the jar.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.