Quotes about Imagination

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Surely she imagined things. But change in her life, her family's, especially around Christmas, meant pain, betrayal, trauma, and death.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

We become what we think about all day long.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.