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Imagination Quotes

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
John Stuart Mill
"In a story, you only had to wish you were somewhere, and you were there"
Ian McEwan
"Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity"
Ian McEwan
"A book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Ezra Pound
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors"
Charles Baudelaire
"Always be a poet, even in prose"
Charles Baudelaire
"Literature is the magic carpet that flies us to the most wonderful places."
Antonio Lobo Antunes
"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination "
Emily Dickinson
"Nature is a haunted house, but Art is a house that tries to be haunted "
Emily Dickinson
"Wherever there is a creative mind, a solution to a problem will be proposed. "
Sigmund Freud
"It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction."
Larry David
"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it."
Neil Gaiman
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."
Neil Gaiman
"The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas"
Salvador Dali
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
Douglas Adams
"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don't understand how people live without creating."
Samuel L. Jackson
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else"
Mark Twain
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time"
Lady Gaga
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
Helen Keller