Quotes about Imagination

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Writing is a form of mischief.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.