Quotes

“If you can imagine a thing,
then it has already existed,
somewhere, somewhen, somehow.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut



“For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.”
― Joyce Carol Oates


“By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.”
― Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction



“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American



“I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.”
― Wallace Stevens


“We have ever more perfect eyes in a world in which there is always more to see.”
― Teilhard de Chardin


Identify people who are where you hope to be in 5 years & then figure out how they got there. –Aki Naito (MBA ’07) http://stnfd.biz/lZ5wV


“To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.”
― Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination


“And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.”
― Jacob Bronowski


“There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan