Quotes About Imagination

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.

She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.

The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have "invented" an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.

There...is your spiritual obligation to literature: root out the reductive; seek excellence; pursue the numinous. And, along with a disciplined intellect (for one is of no use without the other) give to children their imaginations, of which they are being robbed with totalitarian intensity by the trash around them.

What story does the picture tell?" Lieutenant Tanaka had said to Hideki. "That's what I'm always asking myself. Not just what's happening in the photograph I take, but what happened before it was taken, and what will happen afterward. How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

and a chocolate brown woolly

Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

The best way tp predict the future is to invent it.

we predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to invent it

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

Information tech in the era of the personal computer and network is today's equivalent of a Love Bug that not only works but creates a new image of work that allows corporate and other organizational cultures to imagine a cool new vision of themselves. Information technology, in other words, is an institutional desiring engine.

Alan MacDonald

Dearest dumpling, one day your imagination is going to get you into trouble," whispered his mother. He would never do that," Pecorino replied. "We're best friends.

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.