Quotes About Imagination

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.

I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

Hello Huckleberry! Hello, yourself, and see how you like it. What's that you got? Dead cat. Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's pretty stiff. Where'd you get him? Bought him off'n a boy.

Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.

The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.

These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.

When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for.

It is ingeniously named, for it looks just as a cross would look if it looked like something else.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Mark Twain

is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a

At first when the Paladin heard us tell about the glories of the Royal Audience he was broken-hearted because he was not taken with us to it; next, his talk was full of what he would have done if he had been there; and within two days he was telling what he did do when he was there.

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.

everything in a dream is more deep and strong and real than is ever its pale imitation in the unreal life which is ours when we go awake and clothed with our artificial selves in this vague and dull-tinted artificial world.