Anne Waldman Quotes

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it.

My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

I'm a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a creative person is that you can get an idea from anywhere, and I'm always on the hunt for them.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.