Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Imagination is the air of mind.

What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.

Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.

I don't really have a schedule; I just get up in the morning. I work at home. I don't feel that my work is a separate thing from living - I get ideas about what I want to write about from the real things that I'm worrying about as I live.

I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.