#imagination

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#head #i #imagination #music #never

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#comes #guess #i #imagination #learned

Imagination creates some big monsters. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#creates #imagination #monsters #some

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#distortion #dreams #idealistic #imagination #know

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#belief #common #common belief #contrary #exercise

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#breakfast #country #expect #far #first

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination #intelligence #requires #true

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#board #easy #god #gods #imagine