Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"Every person carries within them a world of untold stories."Eudora Welty
"Imagination is the first step toward creation; without it, we are bound by what already exists."Joyce Carol Oates
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."Margaret Atwood
"You must never lose your sense of wonder about the world."Harper Lee
"Imagination is the first step toward creating something new."Harper Lee
"Imagination is the first faculty of human existence"Robertson Davies
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"Robertson Davies
"The writer who loses the ability to be astonished will lose the ability to write."Flannery O'Connor
"If you cannot imagine yourself going through something, you cannot write about it."Flannery O'Connor
"Imagination is the only thing that separates us from the animals. Without it, we're just beasts."Cormac McCarthy
"The most solid thing we have is imagination, that is what carries us from one moment to the next."Eudora Welty
"A story is something that takes place in the mind."Eudora Welty
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."Eudora Welty
"We are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves about who we are."Joyce Carol Oates
"The imagination is more powerful than facts ever could be."Joyce Carol Oates
"We become the stories we repeat about ourselves."Joyce Carol Oates
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."Harper Lee
"The so-called 'real world' is often less real than the world of ideas."David Foster Wallace
"The so-called 'real world' is often far less real than our imaginings of it."David Foster Wallace
"What is the imagination for if not to imagine."Saul Bellow
"Imagination is the greatest of all human powers."Saul Bellow
"The world you inhabit is constructed moment by moment in your own mind."Cormac McCarthy
"The imagination is the most important faculty."Philip Roth
"Every person carries within them a secret world unknown to others."Carson McCullers
"The imagination is the only escape from the limitations of circumstance."Carson McCullers
"The imagination is the last place power cannot completely control."Carson McCullers
"In our sleeping and waking, we are all of us made of dreams."Eudora Welty
"The imagination is a sanctuary we build for ourselves."Eudora Welty
"Every person carries within them a universe of stories."Eudora Welty
"What a man can imagine, he can become."Cormac McCarthy