Anita Shreve Quotes

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

I think your imagination is your reality

Imagination is a form of seeing

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Memory feeds imagination.

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 merely the exploitation of our memory.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Memory is imagination pinned down.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

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

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 primary gift of human consciousness.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.