Quotes About Imagination

I no longer feel quite so alarmed when a nonsensical word in my Journal gives rise to a mental image that I cannot account for. Do not be anxious, I tell Myself. It is the House. It is the House enlarging your understanding.

hatching his poems..

Strange finished: "People have such odd notions about magicians. They wanted me to tell them about vampyres.

Another room was almost empty except for a doll's house standing on a table in the middle of the floor; the doll's house was an exact copy of the real house–except that inside the doll's house a number of smartly dressed dolls were enjoying a peaceful and rational existence together...

But nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad. (What do they need so many umbrellas for? Don't they realise that they are imaginary?)

while he was in hospital he became very agitated, saying that he needed to go back to the minotaurs because the minotaurs would have his dinner.

Show me the labyrinth.' 'Gladly. What would you like to see?' 'I don't know', she said. 'Whatever you want to show me. Whatever's most beautiful.' Of course, what I really wanted to show her was everything, but that was impossible.

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first. Whether this world is still dependent on

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.

Perhaps in some remote area of the labyrinth, statues of obsolete computers are coming into being as we speak!

Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots.

This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never been. Now that it was over, I could turn the past into anything I wanted.

This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never been. Now that it was over, I could turn the past into anything I wanted. I could revise the empty space inside me so that it had a better shape: the outline of a happy childhood.

Ich begann zu begreifen, dass es eine Welt in meinem Kopf gab und eine andere draussen und dass diese beiden Welten nur sehr selten auf die glücklich Idee kamen zusammenzufallen.

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

The sense of self-preservation leads one to many hallucinations. A human being is constantly haunted by fears. He loses his balance and starts imagining and projecting his ideas the way he wishes. He deepens this process in repeating it again and again. Fear is the greatest enemy of man.

La cosa più difficile quando si scrive è sapere che cosa scrivere

Many times you may feel the urge to sit down and start writing a screenplay but you don't really know what to write about. So you go looking for a subject. Just know that when you're looking for your subject, your subject is really looking for you. You'll find it someplace, at some time, probably when you're least expecting it. It will be yours to follow through on or not, as you choose.

Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something. –Maricopa

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

fondle a plump plastic-wrapped volume, crack it's often-cracked back and spread open the pages. Swallow what's in there, whatever it is. Devour the words.

You often appear lost in a world of your own making. It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her.

when we were eating dinner, imagining what it would be like to see