Browsing Topic Best Thinking Things Through Quotes

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.

You can’t be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That’s just part of the training.

I’m very cerebral. I like to think things through.