Quotes About Imagination

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

People come up with stupid ideas all the time. That's why your detergent tells you not to eat it.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

Time is not important, but art is.

Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.