Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.
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The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.
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An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
