Quotes About Imagination

So what if she was more interested in reading about princesses than being one herself?

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

That's the paradox, people aren't interested in reading about settling on Mars or flying to the stars—all the things that people really can achieve, but Others can't. But they dream about becoming magicians, rushing into battle with a big sharp sword…. If only they knew what the wounds from a real sword look like!…What does all this mean? That a medieval world in which magic exists is the one most attractive to people!

I wanted to do something as badly as a genie who's been let out of his bottle for the first time in a thousand years. Anything at all: Raise up castles, lay waste cities, program in Basic, or embroider in cross-stitch.

Astound me! I'll wait for you to astound me.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

En pleine chaleur du mois de décembre, il aimait décorer son minuscule sapin en papier mâché de beaucoup de coton ouaté, pour qu'il ressemblât aux sapins de son pays imaginaire.

The pail containing the fish was part of the vertical axis of the painting and rested on a round table held up by a single foot.

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.

You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.

You make your own reality.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" "Spoken like one who has never known the ecstasy of holding a still-beating heart in her hand.

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

When she remembered the haughty style of his address, she dreamt of watching his eyes glaze over as she choked the life from his body;

Seth Grahame-Smith

Seth Grahame-Smith

The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.

Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.

Allá iban, con mis escupitajos, los bacilos de la tuberculosis que había contraído en Japón y me alegraba imaginar esos bacilos agonizando abrazados bajo el sol tropical.