James Patterson Quotes

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

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.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

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

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

It's important to have an imagination.

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer in that. I'm constantly thinking of that. If I can't picture something, then it doesn't make sense to me.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.