Imagination Quotes

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Robert Fitzgerald

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Jack Prelutsky

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

Lionel Stander

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

Andrew Wyeth

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Marquis de Sade

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Leonard Orr

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Andrew Bird

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Eduard Hanslick

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Timothy Spall

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

C.S. Lewis

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

Gillian Flynn

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Robert Collier

Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone? - Tiffany Aching in

Terry Pratchett