Isabel Allende Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Writing, Tired

• I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Ideas, Blood

• There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Lying, Writing

  Interview with Jordan E. Rosenfeld, www.writersdigest.com. August 27, 2008.

• At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Blood, Imagination, Stronger

  Isabel Allende (2015). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

• if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

  Isabel Allende

  Perfect, Imagination, Society

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