3 December 2020 James A. Michener The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
3 December 2020 Peter Sotos Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I’m a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.
3 December 2020 Bela Lugosi If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
3 December 2020 Leigh Hunt There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
3 December 2020 LeVar Burton Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
3 December 2020 Stephen Sondheim Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
3 December 2020 Irving Howe Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
3 December 2020 Janet Frame Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Georg Brandes Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
3 December 2020 Jean Claude Duvalier I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
3 December 2020 Alexander McCall Smith It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
3 December 2020 Russell Page A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
3 December 2020 Robert Collier Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
3 December 2020 Larry McMurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
3 December 2020 Algernon H. Blackwood His imagination conceived and bore – worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
3 December 2020 Duane Michals I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
3 December 2020 Gary Ross Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
3 December 2020 Robin Wright Penn It’s what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it’s never been before. There’s nothing better than that.
3 December 2020 Bruce Greenwood If you don’t pay attention and if your imagination isn’t pretty much engaged, you’re going to miss things and you’re going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
3 December 2020 Marcello Mastroianni Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
3 December 2020 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
