The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

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.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.