Quotes About Imagination

to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change.

Little people with big dreams are reimagining the world. Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. Now

written words stimulate and liberate the imagination. Images, on the other hand, usually captivate the imagination.

You can get there from here." That favorite saying of Rick's has become one of mine, too. It's shorthand for a potent way of thinking about the future. "Here" is the present, which is in some way less desirable than our imagined future. "There" is the target of our longing. And "you" are the one moving yourself from here to there. We expect something from the future, and also from ourselves.

I smile because there are tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth, and every time I breathe they float and every time I laugh they fly kites.

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though.

Flying carpets were severely lacking in safety features like seatbelts.

Gregor werd nog roder. En toen werd hij groen. Ik knipperde een paar keer met mijn ogen, maar hij was nog steeds groen, met rode ogen. Net de Hulk: hij werd steeds groener en griezeliger en er sprongen twee hoorntjes uit de zijkant van zijn hoofd. Ik had wel eens gehoord van monsterachtige bazen, ik had er zelf een gehad, maar dit was echt belachelijk.

Merlin's "Merlin" outfit.

We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his hands, forming their size and shape from the air. "They were yellow, and smallish, and had lots of petals." "Thank you," she said. "They were beautiful.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

In some ways, I don't feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I've tried to ignore that part of me, I've gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire.

Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic soundtrack.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels." (p. 57).

Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.