Quotes About Imagination

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That's probably as close to immortal as we'll ever get.

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster