Quotes About Imagination

Real life makes for good novels because it's lived as a bunch of lies, and because fictions of one kind or another are the only things worth living for.

All over America, in fact, people were up and out of their beds today in a continuing effort to polish turds. Sure, for the sake of survival, but more immediately for the sake of some sadistic manager or shit-brained client whose small imagination and numbingly dumb ideas were bleaching the world of all relevancy and hope.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

If you want to tell the truth, write fiction

She was pretty sure whatever had made the things hadn't been human.

Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

Perhaps it is impossible for people who don't have younger siblings - or, to be more precise, people never charged in childhood with complete responsibility for their younger siblings - to imagine the huge and tender hollow that such caretaking carves out in a child.

people never charged in childhood with complete responsibility for their younger siblings—to imagine the huge and tender hollow that such caretaking carves out in a child.

I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

What were they wearing the last time you saw them?' Donna stared into the golden-flecked eyes of the moon-faced police lieutenant. He was a short man, intensely muscular

Elsewhere, people like Aunt Emily clack away at their typewriters, spreading words like buckshot, aiming at the shadow in the sky.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

The best books were those uninhabited by those who wrote them.

The battle is always between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, is it not? Imagination is not what it's cracked up to be. Sam decided to forget the petty, bourgeois rite of eating food out of another's orifices for a while. He decided to just love Elizabeth instead.

He had dreamed, he had dreamed...it left him.

She had a dream about a tattoo. This was a pleasant dream. She was walking away and she had the most beautiful tattoo. It covered her shoulders, her back, the back of her legs. It was unspeakably fine.