I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta. Pat Conroy ablazeatlantaemphasis share on social
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. Jules Verne approachbelievechildish share on social
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell generationimagineintelligent Change image and share on social
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Beverly Cleary backwardbeginbook Change image and share on social
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. Mark Ruffalo homeworkideaimagination Change image and share on social
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is. Yvonne Craig decideimaginationscary Change image and share on social
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need. Olivia De Havilland fantasyfilmgreat Change image and share on social
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. J. G. Ballard aestheticimaginationmean Change image and share on social
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher imaginationobservatorysoul Change image and share on social
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. Ralph Fiennes acceptaccessactor share on social