Imagination Quotes - Page 3

I fix the cramped, lined pages
with my curious stare. How do you
come to exist?

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.

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 truth.

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.

I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are... seductive. And I like words because they can contain... fantasies.