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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Voltaire
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Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
Hugo Gernsback
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Oscar Wilde
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
Willa Cather
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We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.
Colum McCann
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann
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What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
Janet Burroway
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Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.
Joan Larkin
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
Graham Greene
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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
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No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.
James Patterson
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Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.
Tom Riley
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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