Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
Anthony PowellTags: imagination writing creative
Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I would never be able to see the city of London without seeing it through the overarching scrim of every description of it I had read before. When I turn the corner into a small, quiet, leafy square, am I really seeing it fresh, or am I both looking and remembering? [...]
This is both the beauty and excitement of London, and its cross to bear, too. There is a tendency for visitors to turn the place into a theme park, the Disney World of social class, innate dignity, crooked streets, and grand houses, with a cavalcade of monarchs as varied and cartoony as Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and, at least in the opinion of various Briths broadhseets, Goofy.
They come, not to see what London is, or even what it was, but to confirm a kind of picture-postcard view of both, all red telephone kiosks and fog-wreathed alleyways.
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Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.
And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.
Tags: imagination life literature cities london literary-london metropolis fictional-london
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.
Maria Augusta von TrappTags: imagination exercise boredom recreation
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon HillTags: imagination success
Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.
Bernard CornwellTags: imagination
For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him never to imagine that again.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: imagination horror
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell MaltzTags: imagination goals belief faith will determination action resolve resolution performance imagine visualize visualizing
The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.
Lionel SuggsTags: imagination mind universe creativity possibility
I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: imagination books despair hope creativity richelle richelle-goodrich
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