Quotes About Imagination

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrane.

I had wanted to become a novelist before I even knew how to read, back when I could only consume books by having them read to me, and none of them seemed long enough. They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored.

Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.

Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.

What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

How is it we don't create new words when we see something that astonishes us? Why don't we make up new words for the things that make us feel new?

The thing I love best about reading fiction is that it gives you a way to connect the experiences of your own life to the larger world," Gigi says. "Don't you find that to be true?

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The thing I love best about reading fiction is that it gives you a way to connect the experiences of your own life to the larger world

sense the story like an approaching storm

Although the hotel in the book is a creation of my imagination, the Nantucket Hotel does have certain similarities: It has both rooms and suites, a family pool and an adult pool, a fabulous fitness center, a yoga

She wants to stay right here, with all of those sumptuous plans still in front of her, forever.

Do all brilliant ideas seem brilliant from the very beginning, or do they seem far-fetched until they come into clearer focus?

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

I communed with myself, after the manner of prodigals, and said: "How much better that I were down in Denver, even at Mrs. Coney's, digging with a skewer into the corners seeking dirt which might be there, yea, even eating codfish, than that I should perish on this desert—of imagination." So I turned the current of my imagination and fancied that I was at home before the fireplace, and that the backlog was about to roll down.

A new line is a new mind.

The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture.

I've spent my whole life reading beautiful books and watching beautiful movies, dreaming that there was some real place out there where I would fit and be beautiful, too.

but instead I just felt funny inside. Not funny ha-ha, but funny weird. / I was too sad to deal. I slumped to the ground and became a line. A line! That gave me an idea! / "Oh! You caught us!" I said. I tried to sound really guilty.

The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work. —Albrecht Durer

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.