Michael Chabon Quotes

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Look around less, imagine more.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

Imagination is my best friend.

Imagination is something you do alone.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.