Quotes and sayings about tag  imagination

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]

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• Books

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.

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• Humor

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.

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

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.

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• Love

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.

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• Writing

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

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• Inspirational

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

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

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.

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• Inspirational

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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• Humor

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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• Truth

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

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• Inspirational