Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"The so-called 'real world' is not nearly as good as what I made up."David Foster Wallace
"The so-called 'real world' is less interesting than our fantasies about it."David Foster Wallace
"Imagination is the first step in the creation of anything."Saul Bellow
"Imagination is intelligence having fun."Norman Mailer
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Joseph Heller
"The mind is a restless thing. It seeks meaning even where none exists."Cormac McCarthy
"Fiction is an act of the imagination; it's not biography."Philip Roth
"The future is an invention of the present."Philip Roth
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."Philip Roth
"The fiction writer has to be capable of at least entertaining the proposition that something might be."Flannery O'Connor
"I believe that there are many rough drafts of stories swimming around in the heads of people who never write."Flannery O'Connor
"The so-called 'real world' is just a construct of those who can't imagine anything better."David Foster Wallace
"The so-called real world is just one possible interpretation of reality."David Foster Wallace
"The only real poverty is the poverty of imagination."David Foster Wallace
"Imagination is the only real power humans possess."Saul Bellow
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge because it encompasses possibility."Saul Bellow
"Imagination is more important than the facts we know."Joseph Heller
"The only real poverty is the poverty of imagination."Joseph Heller
"Imagination is the only thing that transcends reality."Joseph Heller
"The imagination is a valuable tool, perhaps the most valuable we have."Philip Roth
"The mind is capable of imagining far more than reality can provide."Philip Roth
"The imagination liberates us from the tyranny of the actual."Philip Roth
"The imagination is not an escape from reality; it is a way of engaging with it."Philip Roth
"The imagination is the most democratic faculty we possess."Philip Roth
"Imagination is more important than having a college degree."Norman Mailer
"Imagination is the only weapon against a world that would make us all the same."Norman Mailer
"What is the purpose of a telescope? To make faraway things look close. What is the purpose of a microscope? To make close things look far away."Kurt Vonnegut
"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us work through possibilities, play out scenarios."Kurt Vonnegut
"You are in a place called Paris you are not there."William S. Burroughs
"In a world of disorder and doubt, the imagination is very valuable."Saul Bellow