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I loved the world of imagination.

R. A. Salvatore

Man lives by imagination.

Havelock Ellis

Imagination decides everything.

Blaise Pascal

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

Alexandra Adornetto

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

Rob Walton

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

John C. Hawkes

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

Mary Pope Osborne

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

Clive Barker

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man lives by imagination.

Havelock Ellis

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

George Henry Lewes

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Terry Brooks

Imagination is the air of mind.

Philip James Bailey

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

Jim Harrison

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Karen Armstrong

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Terry Brooks

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

Kim Elizabeth

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

L. Frank Baum

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Christopher Fry

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Maria Konnikova

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Imagination needs to be fed.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

H. P. Lovecraft

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

Julia Glass

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

George William Curtis

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.

Alexandra Adornetto

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Wallace Stevens

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

Imagination creates reality.

Richard Wagner

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Katherine Paterson

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Timothy Spall

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

Hannah John-Kamen

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Olivier Martinez

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

Harlan Ellison

Imagination comes of not having things.

LeRoy Neiman

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Yehuda Berg

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Judy Blume

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard