Quotes about Imagination

Actually, he had always preferred the unreal to the real.

Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

The tons of steel of the Russian tanks were nothing compared with it. For there is nothing heavier compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

The dreams were eloquent, but they were also beautiful. That aspect seemed to escape Freud in his theory of dreams. Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about the things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.