Quotes About Imagination

The first object of a novelist, is to tell a tale. If he has no story to tell, what is he there for? Possibly he has something to say which is worth saying, but he should say it in another form.

Sin la imaginación no existe el miedo.

Considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Chairman: Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.

I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

To me, he seemed to see the sap bleeding from the trunks of the pine trees, and the circle of brightness in the sky where the sun was smothered by clouds.

Zato snovi mogu biti tako opasni:oni tinjaju poput prigušene vatre,a ponekad se vatra rasplamsa i potpuno nas proguta.

Sometimes we go through the worst time by imaging how the world would be if our dreams come true.

was living only half in Gion; the other half of me lived in my dreams of going home. This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

I told my mother I thought someone had poked a hole in her eyes and all the ink had drained out

And I really do think if you'd been there to see what I saw, and feel what I felt, the same might have happened to you.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.

Later begreep ik dat er mensen bestaan die van het koesteren van dromen juist onrustig worden. Stel je toch voor dat iedereen zo dacht, dan zou er nergens meer gedanst worden.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

I have coined the term 'bisociation' in order to make a distinction between the routine skills of thinking on a single 'plane', as it were, and the creative act, which, as I shall try to show, always operates on more than one plane. The former may be called single-minded, the latter a double-minded, transitory state of unstable equilibrium where the balance of both emotion and thought is disturbed.