Quotes About Imagination

We find, over time, the deepness of a thing. And if we fail to find it, then we invent it, to show ourselves we are not shallow.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Okay," I said slowly, "but what the hell would you mate a horse with to get a unicorn, because I don't see horses and narwhales doing the dirty boogie.

And to Conrad, it seemed as though he had entered some strange world beyond our own, where nothing was as it appears, and anything could be possible.

The real world was never cool enough for anyone to accept a costumed supervillain. Which

Bottom line: people with ADD have higher levels of creative thinking than those without.

Fiction has no right answers, and reading fiction is not about getting things right.

Reading is about enjoying yourself and learning about the human experience, so go for it.

Harken craned forward, but he couldn't see the entrance ladder. That battered blue box was in the way. He tried to read the writing on the door, but the light was too dim. But, in an odd sort of way, the box was comforting.

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Imagination is what convinces us that there's more to the world than meets the eye. And isn't that the first principle of faith?

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

reminded him of Paul Cézanne's words about seeing in nature the cone, sphere, and cylinder, words that Picasso and Braque, even his old friend Max

We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth through the air as I climbed out of the quarry at the edge of the site.

I suggest we go into business together. 'Carlyle and Skull,' we'd call it, or possibly 'Skull and Co.' Yes, that's it, with a little picture of me over the door. I can see it now….

More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.

I see things . . . beautiful things . . .

I'm sorry, Miraculous One, it's difficult to think of new titles for you when you ask short questions.

Jonathan Stroud

I was rude, unfeeling and brutally confrontational. Basically, I just imagined I was you. - Albert, to Scarlett

Jonathan Stroud