Quotes About Imagination

(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book.

I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire it, and I think to myself, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'l have a book. It is such a pleasurable moment that I type many more title pages than I could ever use.

I was a child who listened to trees and felt the disappointments of the dead. I had friends but they weren't as real as those invisible things that inhabited secret places in my mind.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to relate them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

why shouldn't I dream myself into happiness? What higher reality is there than dream?

I will even go out on a limb and say that we mistakenly may have been putting all our educational eggs into one basket only, while shortchanging other truly valuable capabilities of the human brain, namely perception, intuition, imagination, and creativity. Perhaps Albert Einstein put it best: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

In order to gain access to the right hemisphere, it is necessary to present the left hemisphere with a task that it will turn down.

important key to learning to draw is learning how to set up conditions that allow this mental shift that enables you to see and draw.

an excellent reader and was starting a new book that had something to do with pirates and buried treasure. That was interesting to me because I like to bury my treasures (like nuts and other

HUMPHREY'S TOP SECRET SCRIBBLES Sometimes you have to LOOK-LOOK-LOOK To find the very perfect book.

and not in my poo corner),

Betty G. Birney

Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you'll be happy because you have discovered the comfort and joy of reading.

The world was hers for the reading.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

It is rather his mind has so wide a range, and so rich a retention, that he simply cannot understand that ordinary folk do not always follow him. 'I little imagined,' he said, 'that I should find you in the posture of Sir Isaac Newton.' Oh dear, I thought, here it comes again. What on earth was the meaning of *that*? So I just said No... and went fiddling with the oil-squirter, trying to remember things about Newton.

Those of us who believe in princesses are often laughed at. But I believe the world needs princesses and dukes and queens and kings. We need people who glitter and shine and make a room silent with their entrance. We need them the same way we need ice cream and soccer and music and stories. Oh, how we need stories.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.