Quotes about Imagination
Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
- Seth Godin
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
- Alice Hoffman
We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
- Flume
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
- Napoleon Hill
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
- Steven Pressfield
What would it be like to hold a different girl?
- Rainbow Rowell
He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.
- Tim LaHaye
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
- Carl Jung
Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.
- Tracie Peterson
Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
- Mortimer Adler