Quotes on “imagination”

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Everything you can imagine is real.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.