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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
— Ray Bradbury
I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.
— Brian Sutton-Smith
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
— Paul Harding
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
— Cass Sunstein
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
— Rita Mae Brown
Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.
— Daniel Alarcon
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
— Northrop Frye
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.
— Kirsten Dunst
Anything can be a weapon in imaginative hands.
— Jane Prowse
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
— Peter Mullan
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
— Alexander Chase
A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.
— Debasish Mridha
Don't complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You can't teach someone to be imaginative.
— Tony Gilroy
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
— Oscar Wilde
Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams are the greatest imaginative power of mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don't need to be wasted on naming things.
— Doug Cooper
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
— William Empson
Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty.
— Janet Kagan
Dreams fuel human beings imaginative response to existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
— George Eliot
There's something about growing up, about being in society and mixing with real people that restricts your imaginative powers.
— V.C. Andrews
Without sounding arrogant, A Crafty Cigarette is keeping the spirit of The Jam alive, self-belief, being imaginative and having Mod sensibilities
— Matteo Sedazzari
Humans are very imaginative animals.
— Susumu Tonegawa
Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
— Sara Sheridan
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
— Graham Greene
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[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.
— George Richard Marek
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.
— Stella Benson
That's how I think of God: infinitely creative and imaginative, waiting to place us in some truly awesome scenarios.
— Bonnie Lyn Smith
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
— Jeanette Winterson
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters.
— Neil Gaiman
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Imagination has no book value, but has imaginative value.
— Debasish Mridha
One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative.
— Jesse Thompson
Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation.
— Euginia Herlihy
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
— Walter Lippmann
Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.
— Michel Gondry
Not much. I've very little imagination. It's the imaginative chaps who suffer." "'The coward dies a thousand deaths
— K.J. Charles
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
— John Hurt
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
— Hilary Mantel
An imaginative person can be spiritual but can't be religious.
— Debasish Mridha
Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.
— Sara Sheridan
And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must ... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.
— Stephen King
Your name's now Limp. Aye, not very imaginative, but it's like this. If you can't hear Hood laughing, well, I can.
— Steven Erikson
What matters is the imaginative truth.
— Edna O'Brien
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
— Richard Rorty
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
True education gives a child wings to fly in his imaginative blue sky.
— Debasish Mridha
Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative
— Nancy Pearcey
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
— Hugo Gernsback
Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.
— Nicole Sager
Your life is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life.
— Dashama Konah Gordon
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
— Margot Asquith
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
— Alan Moore
Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
— Major Jackson
Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.
— Karen X. Tulchinsky
Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.
— Sharen Song
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
— Christopher Bram
Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.
— Shannon L. Alder
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
— George Henry Lewes
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
— Mortimer J. Adler
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
— Philip Yancey
As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.
— Sarah Brightman
People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.
— George Albert Wells
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!
— Gavin McInnes
Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but
— Ford Madox Ford
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.
— Debasish Mridha
The phallic dignity, of a powerhouse of a warrior prince, is how the great imaginative literature of Europe begins,
— Philip Roth
A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it, said Espinoza.
— Roberto Bolano
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
— L. Frank Baum
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.
— Isaac Asimov
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.
— Neil Gaiman
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation.
— Debasish Mridha
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
— Guy Davenport
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
— Camille Paglia
Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.
— George Lakoff
