Quotes About Imagination

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

All of us, when we travel, look at the places we go, the things we see, through different eyes. And how we see them is shaped by our previous lives, the books we've read, the films we've seen, the baggage we carry.

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

But this one was a writer, not a reader.

But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a kid who'd never viddied any such thing before, and he said: What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that? I nudged him hard, saying: Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed

you are out of the field of the novel

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

One's first memories are often vicarious: one is told that one did something or was involved in something; one dramatizes it and folds the image falsely into the annals of the truly remembered.

There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

That answer was such a simple one that I could not imagine why I had not guessed it without having to be told. Those very obvious tactical victories are always the victories least foreseen by the onlooker, still less the opponent.

They made me think of long-forgotten conflicts and compromises between the imagination and the will, reason and feeling, power and sensuality; together with many more specifically personal sensations, experienced in the past, of pleasure and of pain.

Indeed, the illusion that anyone can escape from the marks of his vocation is an aspect of romanticism common to every profession; those occupied with the world of action claiming their true interests to lie in the pleasure of imagination or reflection, while persons principally concerned with reflective or imaginative pursuits are for ever asserting their inalienable right to participation in an active sphere.

He continually thought of Lucy. But he did not think anything definite about her. He merely thought of her.

At the same time, the notion that he was entirely actuated by 'rational' motives was also no doubt far from the truth. He was possibly not 'in love', but at the same time impelled by feelings, if less definable than 'love', no less powerful. It was perhaps his imagination which had been captured; which is, after all, something akin to love. Who can say? Mrs. Haycock turned a dazzling smile upon us.

For my own part, I always enjoy hearing the details of other people's lives, whether imaginary or not, so that I found this side of Lovell agreeable.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.

your brain can't tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.

Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'" —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. ALBERT EINSTEIN

All men dream, but not equally. —T. E. LAWRENCE