Quotes About Imagination

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

Crystal shoes And a mare to ride on, A milk white mare, And a silver woven in my hair.

If it occurred to Thursey that there was really no relationship between marrying your own true love and having a fortune showered upon you, she didn't bother about that. In a story you might as well have both, it was make-believe anyway. But if I had to choose, she thought. If I had to choose . . . she stared at her ragged dress hanging from its hook, and her ragged mended sandals on the shelf, then put the books away. How would I ever have such a choice, except in a made-up story?

He found himself waking, despite the alarm clock's shrill ring, ten minutes earlier each day, and as he placed his head on the pillow each evening, numbers and names and new ventures would float through his mind, directionless, like blackbirds.

Making peace with suffering shows we have no imagination and little spiritual purpose.

We might meet again, someday between dreams at dawn.

We'll shake, we'll shake the tree of dreams, That solitary tree of dreams In the centre of the verdant field.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

Sid Hite makes the greatest books

Everyone is worried about what people might be thinking.... Successful people go a step further and focus on what no one is thinking about.

Surety is the end of creativity.

I thought it was a little like writing, words freed from the mind, from imagination, free at long last. I did not think this a good recommendation for writing: to compare it to skull stabbing, but perhaps it is a version of that.

century: "As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

Soldiers are dreamers.

The creation of the mental domain of phantasm has a complete counterpart in the establishment of "reservations" and "nature-parks."... The "reservation" is to maintain the old condition of things which has been regretfully sacrificed to necessity everywhere else; there everything make grow and spread as it pleases, including what is it useless and even what is harmful. The mental realm of phantasm is also such a reservation reclaimed from the encroachment of the reality-principle.