When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in. Ben Okri begincreateimagine Change image and share on social
As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young. Siri Hustvedt boybrotherchild 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
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. John Banville carrycreateimagination Change image and share on social
In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true. Joe Shuster billboarddrawgame share on social
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend. Brenda Laurel humanimaginationreality Change image and share on social
My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams. Alexis Wright continuedreamexplore Change image and share on social
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. Adam Smith bafflecasefact Change image and share on social
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? James Thomson amidboastcreation Change image and share on social
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. Richard Russo anymorebookelegiac Change image and share on social