Quotes About Imagination

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

She started reading novels to put herself in the way of secret lives.

The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower.

Às vezes, as ilusões são uma coisa boa, são necessárias.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.)

Read. Read everything in the genre in which you want to write, but don't limit yourself. Read broadly. The best teacher of writing is a good book.

Books are keys that open many doors.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

In such cases the imagination is undoubtedly its own doppelgänger, and sees nothing more than the projection of its own deceit. But I am puzzled, I confess, to explain the appearance of the first ghost, especially among men who thought death to be the end-all here below.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Good writers are good readers.

Mark Twain's memory had become capricious and his vivid imagination did not always supply his story with details of crystal accuracy.

By the early twentieth century, autobiography was fast establishing itself as a major form of imaginative writing

For Twain, the notion that great writing had to be drawn from life–rather than from what an author heard, read, or simply imagined–was an article of faith, at the heart of his conception of how serious writers worked.

Don't sleep through your dreams.

And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.