Imagine Quotes - Page 24

In literature, you know only what you imagine

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.

I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?

Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.

The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.

I love everybody I work with. It's really like a family. I can't imagine leaving. It's weird. I know at some point I'll have to leave, but I don't really have any plan for that yet. Anytime you're leaving, it's going to be a crapshoot. You hope you have something to do afterward, but there's no guarantee.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

I think that right now the West understands Russia better than before and feels a much greater wariness toward it. I think that, if anything, Russia's sinister nature is exaggerated, in that most contemporary analysts in the West can't even imagine that Russia could be different. I think it can, with a different turn of events.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

Music was sort of an accident for me. I love to do it. I can't imagine doing anything else.