Quotes About Imagination

Your disbelief is a later novel emerging in the long, long shadow of an earlier one—

To relieve ourselves of open-ended narrative, we read into the winter stars all evening. There are just stars and stars and stars.

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know that I ain't there.

There can be no friendship between our peoples. We live in your nightmares, and you are but our dreams.

The dream was greater than a dream. It was a greater life than life.

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know I ain't there.

while the world became the something else of dreams, of books, of Kate.

Do you remember the words, "WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE"? Well, that child is always in us and that child still has a vision.

if you remembered everything that comes into your brain, your brain would not work properly and your ability to creatively think and imagine would be diminished. Everyday life would be difficult; sure, you'd be able to recall long lists and cite elegiac love poems, but you'd struggle to grasp abstract concepts and even to recognize faces. There's

You will journey far beyond the boundaries of your imagination. You will meet and seize your heart's desire. It will be the death of your soul.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Be the person I'm playing. That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I cannot imagine in the future any girl who looks on the light of the sun who will have your skill and wisdom.

Every writer is first a reader, and what we read matters.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

I urge you to imagine the interlaced abundance if, throughout suburbia, every stockade fence, every chain-linked boundary, were to be buried in varied greenery and each of them and every hedge transformed into a hedgerow. I ask you, at least, to open the door to some first guest that your party might begin.

The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.

Caught in the gloaming, suspended in the gilded hour, she saw herself in a landscape of years stretching into a horizon she had never dared imagine for herself.

Once Upon a time,' the stories would begin ... no particular time, fictional time, fairy-story time. This is a doorway; if you are lucky, you go through it as a child, aurally, before you can read, and if you are very lucky, you become a free citizen of an ancient republic and can come and go as you please.

Remember that it is good for children to be bored sometimes. Children who are not continually provided with stimuli develop more active imaginations, a stronger sense of self-sufficiency and, probably, higher self-esteem.

On NCIS or White Collar, I'd forcefully persuade a reluctant judge to issue a search warrant and then persuade my equally reluctant boss to give me access to a portable X-ray machine, and then I'd find Sebastian's body and make an arrest—after a near-death escape from Nabiyev, whom I'd overpower despite his bigger size and more massive gun power. I wished I were a TV detective.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars.

sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth