Quotes About Imagination

The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.

but not what it meant to her. Not how it felt. Because stories, maybe, were drafts of reality based on feelings.

As for dreams, they are powered by urgent desire, even if that desire is only to escape the quotidian

there is no backstory in dream. Time slips all its handcuffs. So:

The person who would become a lifelong reader should stumble upon very rich stuff first, early, and often. It lived within, a most agreeable kind of haunting.

But those are legends and lore; they are faith and fictions. Not everyone is a character in a story.

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142)

On Three Ways of Writing for Children": When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

For instance, in The Artist's Way, her influential book about cultivating creativity, Julia Cameron suggests scheduling an "artist's date

It's always reading that makes me want to experience things.)

Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

This phenomenon of pareidolia explains why we see the Man in the Moon or the face of the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich (which, by the way, sold for $28,000).

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

All the words I have to say have turned into stars.

In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.

I believe that if someone always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.

It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?