Quotes About Imagination

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you're gone.

A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.

I only have love affairs with a notebook.

Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

The words came to her in torrents, they cascaded through her brain and she just had to hold the pen. Sometimes when she was writing they came so quickly that she could hardly keep up. It was a wonderful feeling when the words poured from the pen without her needing to think for one second about what she should write.

Polite fictions are very important for dragons.

One of the main activities of the Poet Laureate is to embody poetry. It is really helpful to see someone who presents poetry and makes them want to take poetry home with them.

Growing up in a military family perhaps cultivates a certain kind of imagination that makes it easier to engage in the subject of war.

Imagination is a double-edged sword. You get cut both ways—bleed happily, bleed nostalgically.

The only knowledge man has of his thoughts is by their expression, consequently, every material being that can be conceived by the mind exists or can exist . He may imagine what is incongruous, as the sphinx. But his imagination is a piecing together of realities, not a creation out of nothing.

He who remembers, sees; and he who sees, can fly.

Imagination has great power. If you make a picture in the mind, the vibrations of the body may adjust to it if the will is directed that way, as in thoughts of health or sickness.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts.

In order to write the novel I'm committed to, I have to pretend that it's not only separate from everything I've written before, but also separate from anything anyone in the history of the universe has written. This is a grotesque delusion and a crass vanity, but also a creative necessity.

It is an abnormal thing to want to be an artist, to practice an art. It is comparatively normal to practice an interpretative art. But to actually make things up is not something that, well, usually runs in families or is the recommendation of a career master.

Happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.