Salman Rushdie Quotes

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

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.

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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