Quotes About Imagination

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

So okay? there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

I tend to scare myself.

Do you drink? Of course,I just said I was a writer.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say Fear, itself. Then you have a small imagination. Roland and Eddie