Quotes About Imagination

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

E se tu stessi dormendo E dormendo facessi un sogno E in quel sogno vedessi te stesso in Paradiso E li cogliessi uno strano e bellissimo fiore E, una volta svegliato, ti ritrovassi Col fiore in mano? Oh, e se così fosse, che faresti allora?

An artist who is inspired is being obvious.

God, it's so stupid the way I see my life, see all my existence as if there's some magic out there waiting just for me.

An affair? Jeff?" "You think it's beyond him?" "No, I just can't imagine him working up enough emotion or blood flow to get hard.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Mary Henry ought to write romance novels. She has a way of embellishing that most authors would envy.

To be inventive, to have ideas, is an organic part of being talented.

I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite.

find the experience of diving into a new world the most exhilarating of sensations," he said. "I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite." He

I read a lot. I read everything. Novels, hundreds of novels. You learn a lot about human nature through literature.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Lo soñado se confunde con lo pensado. La realidad y la irrealidad se vuelven continuas.

Al escucharlos, Matías se veía a sí mismo compartiendo su aventuras y eso era lo que más le gustaba porque en el momento en el que le parecía formar parte de esa historia, Matías dejaba de estar triste, olvidaba sus preocupaciones y se abandonaba a un mundo en el que al final todo salía bien.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Besides, I told him, as Hemingway once wrote about good stories, "They are truer than if they had really happened.

There is a winter ahead such as I think we cannot imagine, but remember that spring always follows.

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There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too.

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.