Quotes About Imagination

the canvas is never empty

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

Daydreams can be dangerous.

Everyone has their own version of a memory

She had what the Victorians would call a finely shaped head . You could imagine the skull quite easily. I'd know her head anywhere. And what's inside it. I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?

The children in the woods play wild, secret games.

That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks.

Eres mejor que cualquier libro de cuentos, eres mejor que nada que cualquiera pueda inventar.

She had an invisible friend, a giant stuffed bear she called Ben. What kind of kid has an imaginary friend that's a stuffed animal? She collected hair ribbons and arranged them in alphabetical order by color name. She was the kind of girl who exploited her cuteness with such joy you couldn't begrudge her.

He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.

Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such.

Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word—WRITER—anytime

The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore.

The Muehlers were good people with no imagination, with personalities so tied to the land, even their skin seemed to take on the ridges and furrows of Kansas.

No consigo recordar ni una sola cosa asombrosa que haya visto en persona que no me recordase de inmediato a una película o a un programa de televisión

Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.

She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale.

Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it

I created a manuscript, and she created a life. I

Carl just needed to hear the clink of glasses, the glug of a drink being poured. I picked up the phone, shaking a tumbler of ice near the receiver so Carl could imagine his gin.

she day-dreamed about dying.

I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show.