Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature. . . He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more.
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.
I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
Science-fiction. . . can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4. 5 billion pieces of candy.
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.
We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape. ” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being. . . ultimate reality is what we call God.
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.
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.