Imagination Quotes - Page 28

• I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.

  Matthea Harvey

  Spring, Ocean, Flower

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Europe, Giving

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• India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

  Yann Martel

  And Love, India, Stories

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• Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Law, Space

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of comic books, over the years, has been that, if they are frozen movies, they are not limited by budget. They are only limited by imagination.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Years, Looks

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• I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

  Jim Shepard

  Exercise, Thinking, Fiction

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• I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

  Jim Shepard

  Emotional, Stories, Complicated

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• Public image is extremely important in American society and I observed personally that the Presidency of John F. Kennedy did much in the public mind for Harvard. Harvard was an excellent school before Kennedy, but Kennedy embodied a new vision for the United States: a leader who caught the world's imagination and that reflected on his alma mater, Harvard.

  Henry Rosovsky

  School, Leader, Mind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.

  Darryl Pinckney

  White, Justice, Black

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• Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.

  Karen Russell

  Growing Up, Ocean, Tree

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• You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously about reforming the Arabic that we use today.

  Hassan Blasim

  Thinking, Feelings, Needs

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• Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

  Hassan Blasim

  Wall, Reality, Breathing

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• Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.

  Hassan Blasim

  Confusion, World, Today

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• We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Art, Joy

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Reading, Writing, Wild Imagination

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Fun, Believe, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Night, Air, Discipline

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to Tomaž Šalamun's famous line, "Every true poet is a monster." Or why Richard Hugo writes that the imagination is a cynic. T

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Names, Monsters

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• 9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and perhaps will be forever? Sometimes it seems like it. It was such a monstrous act of imagination over anything else - the actual fatalities, while awful, were not what distinguished the event from others.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Mean, Forever, Events

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• I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But I've read all of the books, and I love them. I love them because I enjoy being transported to a different world and having my imagination challenged. That's a huge part of what we do as actors. We have to imagine ourselves in a different world. And when you are in a young adult fantasy, it challenges you in the best way.

  Viola Davis

  Book, Love You, Twilight

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• My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.

  Norman Lock

  Country, Intelligent, Past

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• When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.

  Kansai Yamamoto

  Daughter, Crazy, Energy

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• Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.

  Chad Harbach

  Running, Reality, Differences

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• I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, Allies, Audience

  "Glenn Frey Tribute – Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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