Quotes About Imagination

I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.

Every time a book opens, an angel coughs up a hairball.

My imagination is most at ease with an old literary convention like the epistolary novel, or a classical myth--received melody lines, so to speak, which I then reorchestrate to my purpose.

We are all engaged in looting the past. (Only the greatest geniuses manage to steal from the future.)

When computers learn how to make jokes, artists will be in serious trouble.

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

each will form universal images according to the conditioning of his body.

Si existiese un dios o algún ser omnisciente, este ser no podría forjar absolutamente ficción alguna

If you have writer's block, write about having writer's block, and you will no longer have it.

Refusal to accept reality does not change reality. My girlfriend broke up with me. I said, "I can't imagine you leaving me." She said, "Well, let me help. You stay here. I'm going to turn around. Then I'm going to start walking. To you, it'll seem like I'm getting smaller."

People do crazy things when bored. I'm sitting at home with nothing to do, looking at the cats, and think, "I'll teach the cats to wrestle." You should never teach cats to wrestle, but if you do, here's how: Get two cats. Take cat number one, and rub catnip all over hime. Put him next to cat number two. The rest just sort of happens.

Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.

The way I write isn't visually or stylistically dependent. It's usually one character that starts talking, and that points me where the story's going.

Once, centuries ago, a map was a thing of beauty, a testament not to the way things were but to the heights scaled by men's dreams.

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

Picture yourself on a train in a station With plasticine porters with looking glass ties, Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.

But that night, the future was still blank. The film had not been shot, the bromide was still in its brown glass bottle. Nothing had been fixed.

Chissà se il gigante legge, e che cosa legge, e che cosa prova. Chissà se i libri gli cambiano la vita. O se legge solo l'universo, e non ci capisce niente.