Quotes About Imagination

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

Sometimes I wonder if I talk to myself becuase I'm a writer, or if I'm a writer because I talk to myself

The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

Buried in the minds of those of us who are lucky is a childhood landscape, a place of magic and imagination, a safe place. It is foundational, and we will return to it in memory and dreams throughout our lives.

There was Sheila Walker who was six, and who, I am ashamed to say, Jean and I used to terrorize. She did ask for it - she grizzled and told tales - but still, we should not have fed her on dandelion leaves and then told her they were deadly poison. I see that now. At the time, it seemed like a good idea.

All really good picture books are meant to be read five-hundred times.

1. Big Bad Ben by Rosemary Wells 2/2/22 read on my own

When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility

Such artistic forays into the countryside had been made easier by the invention, in 1824, of metal tubes for oil paints, which replaced the messy and awkward pig bladders in which artists of previous generations had kept their paints; and by the introduction of collapsible three-legged stools and portable easels, both of which could be carried into the countryside by the artist.18

As a man writes his fiction, his fiction is writing him. We can never change ourselves back into what we were, any more than I can change these printed words. So we have to be careful about what we write.

A few languid clouds moved inland over our heads. A little high plane was gamboling among them like a terrier in a henyard.

Her expression seemed to keep changing, from grief and fear and dismay to cold indifference. I wondered what caused the changes, or if my mind had conspired with the lights to half imagine them.

You're making this up" "I am not" "What woods are you talking about" "It's on the peninsula someplace. I didnt pay good attention on the way. I was strung out on an Einstein trip." "Einstein Trip" When you go all the way out, past the last star, and space loops back on you.

You're making this up" "I am not" "What woods are you talking about" "It's on the peninsula someplace. I didnt pay good attention on the way. I was strung out on an Einstein trip." "Einstein Trip?" "When you go all the way out, past the last star, and space loops back on you.

History as it comes from the hand of God has a preordained meaning and direction, and it moves to a purpose neither decreed by man nor conducive to man's sin. As a result, man is in revolt against history. Man pits against history the imagination of his fallen heart.

Books are a bit like time travel, aren't they? They can pick you up out of your life and put you in someone else's? It's just a shame that at some point you always have to come back.

the most wonderful discoveries that have ever been made by mankind always happen when someone decides to believe in the impossible. 8 JULY 'The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything.

It was like hearing customs from an undiscoverd race: what men thought was unimaginable....She wondered if all human activity were like this, everything, every gesture, every comment colored faintly by gender. Each side continually astonished, confused by the other's misperceptions. p 133

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

When creative imagination is used to improve your awareness of your true nature in relationship to the Infinite, the work is done as soon as you actually experience that desired change in Self-awareness and knowledge. When it is used to achieve goals or fulfill purposes, orderly unfoldments of events will spontaneously occur that will make possible the desired outcomes.

In the tales he concocted about his adoptive family, Stanley claimed to be raised by parents who taught self-control. The dying words he ascribed to his fantasy mother were "Be a good boy.

Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.