Quotes About Imagination

I'd have died without them [books]. Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

There's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took me here, where I belong.

that the doll's house belonged to said: I will get a doll dressed like a policeman! BUT the nurse said: I will set a mouse-trap! SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But they were not so very, very naughty

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

a time there were four little Rabbits

Beatrix Potter

into a can. It would have been a beautiful thing

About Anna Faktorovich's Romances of George Sand: "What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love.

Until black people, and our allies in love and struggle, become militant about how we are represented on television, in movies, and in books, we will not see imaginative work that offers images of black characters who love. If love is not present in our imaginations, it will not be there in our lives.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

spirits bring contentment for a time carry us closer to the sacred moving through bitterness our yearning to hold on to moments of ecstasy where we imagine we hear clearly destiny calling

The space of our lack is also the space of possibility.

When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience.

male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape

Every writer must bring three major factors to each story that he writes. They are ideas, artistry and craftsmanship.

creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

But, after a while, I actually began to enjoy reading those books, because we were very poor. But between the covers of those books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything.

Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish.

We have no choice but to scramble to retrace our steps and to try, in a hurry now, to imagine things differently: other worlds, other ways of thinking, living, seeing. Other ways of writing, and of reading.

What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.