Quotes About Imagination

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Time travel is such a magic concept.

I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.