691 quotes found
“So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disea...”
“I exist in the paradise of my mind.”
“I live in the paradise of my imagination.”
“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutel...”
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
“We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.”
“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.”
“Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.”
“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It ...”
“Dont be afraid to really use your imagination. Let it run wild. Its one of the most powerful tools youve got.”
“Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.”
“Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing ...”
“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. ”
“Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.”
“If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.”
“You may think Im small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
“The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world co...”
“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one wher...”
“I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the t...”
