Imaginative Quotes

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

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.

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

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.

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.