Quotes About Imagination

This whole place started as a dream. I never told you this, but my dreams started here, too. The first time I came to this place, I was able to imagine some sort of life for myself that didn't completely suck. That was huge for me. I can't tell you how huge.

What kind of books do you like?" "The kind of books that make me forget my own life for a while.

She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true.

She read books that took her to faraway places. Books that let her live a different life. Books that made her see the world with new eyes.

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss?

A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Step softly—a dream lies buried here.

I read books, …Like, all the time.

When she was a girl, Natalie used to start each day by skipping through the shop, calling good morning to her favorites as she passed them---Angelina Ballerina, Charlotte and Ramona, Lilly and her purple plastic purse.

She loved reading books. While her mom was busy making sandwiches, she would curl up in a corner and read to keep herself company.

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.

He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his face changed constantly. Within the space of a single moment he looked surprized, insulted, resolute, and angry--emotions which were presumably the consequences of the energetic conversation he was holding with the ideal people inside his head.

O, wherever men of my sort used to go, long ago. Wandering on paths that other men have not seen. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

With his long hair as ragged as rain and as black as thunder, he would have looked quite at home upon a windswept moor, or lurking in some pitch-black alleyway, or perhaps in a novel by Mrs. Radcliffe.

With characteristic exuberance Tom named this curiously constructed house Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre, which means the Castle of Innumerable Towers. David Montefiore had counted the innumerable towers in 1764. There were fourteen of them.

Once, men and women were able to turn themselves into eagles and fly immense distances. They communed with rivers and mountains and received wisdom from them. They felt the turning of the stars inside their own minds.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic. [As quoted on WritersServices , 6 March 2012]

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.

Immediately he became convinced that all the cupboards in the house were full of pineapples.

Bright yellow leaves flowed swiftly upon the dark, almost-black water, making patterns as they went. To Mr. Segundus the patterns looked a little like magical writing. 'But then,' he thought, 'So many things do.

A Nottinghamshire man called Tubbs wished very much to see a fairy and, from thinking of fairies day and night, and from reading all sorts of odd books about them, he took it into his head that his coachman was a fairy.

Pero los sueños atraviesan los muros de piedra, iluminan las habitaciones vacías y oscurecen las iluminadas, y los personajes que intervienen en el sueño entran y salen a placer, burlándose de los cerrojos.

Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.