Quotes About Imagination

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Bridgeport? Said I. Camelot, Said he.

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him.

Then the cow asked: What is a mirror? It is a hole in the wall, said the cat. You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy.

I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn

A well put together unreality is pretty hard to beat.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.