Imagination Work Quotes

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.