Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Imagination is an instrument of survival.
The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.
I've always had an active imagination.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a char...
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
