Quotes About Imagination

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

I grew up reading science fiction.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.

I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they're all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it's a CD, you're getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they're coming from. I like that.

I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like.

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.