“Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.”
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“The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.”
“But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?”
“I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.”
“When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.”
“The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.”
“I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.”
“I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.”
“You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.”
“What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.”
“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.”
“I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.”
“Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.”
“I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?”
“When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.”
“We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.”
“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”
“I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.”
“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”
“Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.”
“My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.”
“A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.”
“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.”
“Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.”