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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization -- L. Frank Baum
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -- Cecil Beaton
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective. -- Dan Chaon
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. -- Christopher Bram
Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline. -- Shaun McNiff
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. -- Paul Harding
Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation. -- Euginia Herlihy
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. -- Hugo Gernsback
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God. -- R. S. Thomas
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes. -- Honore de Balzac
When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning - human meaning, that is - is defined by them. -- Margaret Atwood
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. -- Mortimer Adler
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft. -- Madison Smartt Bell
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning"?human meaning, that is"?is defined by them. You have to admit that. -- Margaret Atwood
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self Imaginative people have messier minds. -- Scott Barry Kaufman
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. -- Margot Asquith
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting. -- Vera Rubin
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. -- Percy Ross
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. -- Paul Krugman
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. -- Alexander Chase
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. -- George Eliot
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. -- Kenneth Branagh
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts. -- John F. Carlson
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. -- Franz Boas
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. -- Gore Vidal
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book. -- Julian Barnes
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
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. -- Thomas Carlyle
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. -- Jacob Bronowski
If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible. -- Margaret Heffernan
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. -- Michael Gove
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own. -- Sarah Waters
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history. -- Nelson Mandela
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands. -- Anna Deavere Smith
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. -- Ray Bradbury
The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon. -- Arthur Helps
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. -- Diane Cilento
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother. -- Ronald Reagan
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. -- Zaha Hadid
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. -- Oscar Wilde
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. -- George Santayana
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. -- P. L. Travers
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. -- Virginia Postrel
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop. -- Lin Yutang
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. -- Julia Child
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. -- Archibald Hill
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? -- Cesare Pavese
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a sense of identity - to be able to read texts that chimes with their own world, corrals thoughts, and connects with the emotional conflicts of growing up. -- Theresa Breslin
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds. -- Alan Lightman
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me. -- Kirsten Dunst
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more. -- Jasper Fforde
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive. -- Dean Koontz
Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. -- Dean Koontz
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God is only a great imaginative experience. -- D. H. Lawrence
We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach. -- Colum McCann
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. -- Oscar Wilde
Dreams are the greatest imaginative power of mankind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. -- Khaled Hosseini
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions. -- Voltaire
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality. -- William Blake
Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer. -- Willa Cather
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. -- Herman Wouk
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. -- Herman Wouk
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. -- Samuel Beckett
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world. -- Suheir Hammad
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds." -- Percy Ross
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. -- Helen Vendler
Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. -- Sara Sheridan
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative. -- Richard Rorty
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community. -- Joan Larkin
Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities. -- Debasish Mridha
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. -- Graham Greene
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. -- Alan Moore
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. -- C. V. Wedgwood
. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value." -- Major Jackson
Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way. -- Sharen Song
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. -- Dejan Stojanovic
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. -- Neil Gaiman
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. -- Mary Karr
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. -- Walter Lippmann
I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative. -- Stan Lee
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them. -- Stella Benson
Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again. -- Moira Kelly
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator. -- Philip Yancey
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight. -- Lloyd
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. -- David Whyte
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, -- Marilynne Robinson
People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others. -- George Albert Wells
Visualization is a process when we try to see the imaginative creation as a real future manifestation. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. -- Fairfax M. Cone
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. -- Northrop Frye
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind. -- Debasish Mridha
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. -- Kirsten Dunst
In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration. -- Robert J. Shiller
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. -- Camille Paglia
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. -- Guy Davenport
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. -- Karen Armstrong
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. -- Rita Mae Brown
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written. -- Tom Riley
When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing- -- Stephen King
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. -- Brenda Ueland
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that. -- Harry Dean Stanton
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life. -- Danielle Trussoni
A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind. -- Debasish Mridha

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