Quotes About Imagination

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

Reality is the condition we create for ourselves. If one side believes

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

He gifted the people He made with an echo of His creative power.

Books are like paper windows into other worlds, aren't they, Uncle Stephen?" she asked

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.

Did she imagine the look of disappointment which flickered across Luciana's face, or did she just imagine it?

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

Qué harías si pudieras volar? -preguntó la señora mientras desviaba la vista del pájaro y la posaba en mí. -¿Es una pregunta para el concurso? -escribí con una sonrisa. -Creo que ya estudiamos todo -respondió sonriendo entre dientes. -Tendría miedo de lanzarme -tecleé. -¿Por temor a caer? -preguntó. -No. Por temor a que la sensación de volar me resultara demasiado agradable -me llevó mucho tiempo escribir eso.

It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers," she teased.

Mentre guardavo il film mi domandai che cosa avremmo chiesto al mago, se io e il mio cane fossimo stati trasportati ad Oz. Mmm, vediamo un po'. Cervello? Ne ho da vendere. Coraggio? Cubik non ha paura di niente! Un cuore? Io e la mia cucciola abbiamo un cuore grande così. Che cosa avrei chiesto, allora? Mi piacerebbe cantare come il Leone Codardo e danzare come l'Uomo di Latta. Nessuno dei due lo faceva molto bene, ma a me sarebbe bastato.

Put yourself in Melody's chair. Write a paper that tells what it would be like to be Melody for one day. Write about your feelings and frustrations.

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

If I ever prayed, as a child, for everlasting union, these were its shoes: one dew-licked kicked-off slipper of a being now flying, one sunrise-milk-green boot of the dead, which I wore, as I dreamed.

As a child, he'd peered at the camera, as if trying to see into it, to its engineering

he is like an icon, he is like a fantasy. I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

as he soars from the precipice edge, dreamy.