All Quotes By Tag: Imagination

“But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.”

“The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

“Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

“Imagination seems to come fast and true in the morning and evening light, the bookends of the day, shifting as books come and go like moments in time. It’s during these times in which the phrases “It is so” and “It is not so” become “It might be so” and “It might not be so.” In this way, the black and white realism of the day transforms into colorful winged possibilities of morning and night.”

“They tricked me in school and marketing only made it worse. Happiness, love, wellness, success are not children of luck, things to be found or to work hard for, but matters of design. A good life story is all about imagination, resilience, strategy and skills.”

“Depression was my body’s way of grieving the loss of my childhood dreams. Writing was my imagination’s way of redefining them.”

“Each breath we take means that we are a success in life.Each step forwards means that we are heading in the right direction.Each dream we have means that we are imaginative and can see our future.Each failure means that we are learning by our mistakes and efforts.Each success means that we have many more ahead of us and not behind.”

“The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My imagination keeps keeps me from actually doing anything stupid.”

“May the clouds give your shapes inspiration.”

“May the key of inspiration unlock your dungeon of creativity”