Quotes About Imagination

Thanks to George R. R. Martin, who asked me to write him a story.

As a writer, I roll around in words the way cats roll around in catnip.

Writers read. Writers read promiscuously, aggressively and relentlessly.

The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.

Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are disease-ridden, some deceitful; but others are a delight to behold, and many travel to foreign lands; some cry, some teach, others are lots of fun, they are excellent companions and all have individuality - Books are friends. What person has too many friends?

That is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we wouldn't ordinarily know. A good book is a magic gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. Books are experiences that make us grow, that add something to our inner stature.

Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Since words are the way we communicate experiences, truth, and situations, who should know how to use them more creatively than people who are aware of their Creator? The world cries out for imaginative people who can spell out truth in words that communicate meaningfully to people in their human situation.

books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, "Gleep!" The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll, and the Beast That Talks that is never named in polite company. I grinned back. Grolls are slow of wit and often quick of temper.

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In this way practice the meditation that observes How all outer and inner phenomena are no more Than images projected by the distorted mind Onto the according bases of imputation Not even an atom inherently exists. Thus become wise in how all things in both Samsara and Nirvana are mere mental labels; But how nonetheless they continue to function By the unfailing laws of cause and effect.

Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.

Believing these thoughts causes great suffering in my clients' lives. At those times, I feel like Alice in Wonderland talking to the White Queen in Through the Looking Glass. When Alice tells the queen that she can't believe impossible things, the queen replies, "I daresay you haven't had much practice… Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Cuando el mundo retrocede, la rima asoma. Cuando la vida aprieta, los versos repuntan.

Then she turned and firmly folded her evening like gold and lavender gauze deep within the creases of her dreams, and let her clothes drop to the floor

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

In the telling, it seemed I was back there once more.

As one of the admirers of Carlos Castaneda puts it: If the account is a documentary truth, then Castaneda is a great anthropologist; if it is an imaginative tale, then he is a master fiction writer. In either case he wins. How can we reply to this argument?

Here's some more stuff we're going to need. 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?' 'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing?just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it could be anything.' 'Which it isn't,' I remind him. 'Exactly! The nothing becomes something because of how you react to it!

We used to think that schools built brains. Now we know that it is play that builds the brains that school can then use.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.