Quotes About Imagination

The creative writer acts no differently from the child at play: he creates a fantasy world, which he takes very seriously; that is to say, he invests large amounts of emotion in it, while marking it off sharply from reality.

Bo There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

Here is what I learned: Simone Weil was right. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.

Writing is a supernatural thing.

Quando uno ha troppa tristezza, la magia ci annega dentro, come le persone dentro l'acqua. Però nonna sapeva come si fa. Se pensi forte le cose, loro diventano vere. Ma, se dentro hai la tristezza, tutto quello che ti esce dalla testa è la tristezza.

Quando tutto ti fa paura, hai bisogno di un sogno ancora più che di qualcosa da mangiare.

As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.

Just because you don't know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn't mean you shouldn't allow yourself to really, really want it. That's the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles.

I think I see it." I hoped I was looking in the right place. Constellations had always seemed like a cruel joke to me. How could someone take a few dots in the sky, turn them into an elaborate picture, and expect everyone to share their delusion?

When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are.

What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.

Lo más terrible es sentir en nuestra vida, en la que todo parece repetirse, la incapacidad de volver a escribir un cuento que hemos perdido.

Houses dream they are boats at night.

In a way, like Scheherazade to King Shahryar, I told stories to death so that it would spare my life and my images, stories that seemed to never end.

Creo que esa falta esencial de recuerdos, en mi caso, no provenía de una falta de memoria: creo que mi pensamiento, ocupado en adivinar el futuro, tan lleno de imágenes, no podía demorarse en el pasado.

Gabriela has been dreaming about her and about a pair of shoes for quite some time.

A woman plays the Northumberland pipes; from where I'm sitting, on a wall at the back, it looks like she's giving physiotherapy to a small marsupial wearing callipers and smoking a bong, but the sound is haunting and hypnotic, mournful and melodic at the same time, every note somehow harmonising with the low, droning purr.

THE MAGIC TREE Everyone in that crowd turned its head, and then everyone drew a long breath of wonder and delight. A little way off, towering over their heads, they saw a tree which certainly had not been there before. – The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis

part of what is needed is a theory not only of how we invent, but why we invent. Recall that Edison was inventing for the pure pleasure of inventing. He worked on many of his inventions, not to meet an unmet need, but just to see what happens and what's possible. The Systemizing Mechanism is what drives curiosity.

Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of her wonders.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

He had done it as if in preparation for his work as a creative writer: he had mastered the technical aspect of writing, strengthening his verbal muscle, so that when he started to use his imagination, he knew exactly how to express himself.