Quotes About Imagination

fortuitous for me. This sort of tale serves, in many ways, the very same purpose as fairy tales did in our childhood: It operates as a theater of the mind in which internal conflicts are played out. In these tales we can parade the most reprehensible aspects of our being: cannibalism, incest, parricide. It allows us to discuss our anxieties and even to contemplate the experience of death in absolute safety.

I like writing fiction better than anything, because just being a writer of fiction gives you an absolutely unassailable protection against reality; nothing is ever seen clearly or starkly, but always through a thin veil of words.

She wants her cup of stars." Eleanor

If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.

I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.

Flowers under glass," Luke said. "Tassels. I am beginning to fancy this house.

They are the children of the strangers, I told her. They have no faces. They have eyes. Pretend they are birds.

One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by strangers. I had never fully realized this before, although I had of course in my imagination dwelt lovingly upon the thought of the millions and millions of people who were going to be uplifted

Il lettore che fosse sconcertato dalle mie impacciate descrizioni dovrebbe solo provare a chiudere gli occhi per non più di due minuti e scoprirebbe che, tutt'a un tratto, egli non è più un essere umano solido, bensì una pura coscienza immersa in un mare di sensazioni sonore e tattili; è solo quando abbiamo gli occhi aperti che torna la forma corporea, costruendosi saldamente attorno al nocciolo duro della vista.

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again

By changing the emphasis and angle on this little plot we can make it say almost anything we like. There is certainly no need to worry about whether any of this is true, or actually happened; it is as true as you make it. The important thing is that it be true in the story, and actually happen there.

what a shame that dreams are not the stuff that stories are made on.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it . . .

It is most agreeable to be a writer of fiction for several reasons–one of the most important being, of course that you can persuade people that it is really work if you look haggard enough–but perhaps the most useful thing about being a writer of fiction is that nothing is ever wasted; all experience is good for something; you tend to see everything as a potential structure of words.

I could say," Eleanor put in, smiling, "'All three of you are in my imagination; none of this is real.

Ask your mommy can we have two chairs out here, Billy said. Then we can pretend the whole garden is our house.

No soporto escribir temas autobiográficos porque si son aburridos, nadie debería leerlos, y si son interesnates, debería usarlos en una historia.

My mother says dumplings in a dream are a dream and not dumplings.

She wore amethyst-purple woolen slacks paired with a bright yellow leather jacket, like a human being hoping to become an iris.

Kelly, there is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

there is magic, but you have to be the magician. you have to make the magic happen.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.