Quotes About Imagination

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

Life is better when we imagine it

What we think about, expands.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.