Imaginative famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Too Much #Facts #Imaginative
We will destroy you,â€ the Flyboys droned. â€œYou have no escape.â€ That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these â€™droids to say? â€œTalk about lame,â€ Fang muttered.
-- James Patterson

#Lame #Threatening #Imaginative
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
-- Janet Burroway

#What Matters #Practice #Imaginative
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.
-- Joan Larkin

#Community #Poet #Imaginative
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
-- Margot Asquith

#Signposts #Imaginative #Symbols
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
-- Vera Rubin

#Uplifting #Aggressive #Imaginative
What matters is the imaginative truth.
-- Edna O'Brien

#What Matters #Matter #Imaginative
Much of the visualizing is imaginative.
-- Fred D'Aguiar

#Imaginative #Visualizing
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.
-- Tom Riley

#Stage #Visceral #Imaginative

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.
Now that I think about it, it seems to me thatâ€™s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.
For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, donâ€™t understand very much about what they doâ€”not why it works when itâ€™s good, not why it doesnâ€™t when itâ€™s bad.
But, to the extent that I cannot solve MY problem with the same thinking I used when I created it, you're right. We need the fresh air that comes from others to see things in other ways.
War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power ... but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.
Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.
In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . .