Quotes About Imagination

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.

There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.

Whatever man imagines is possible

Your imagination has an impressive reach." "Or my boredom an impressive scope.

His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.

When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.

I gaze up at the ceiling. Through it. Past Kim and Chip's room on the second floor into the sky, space, heaven, hell. Who says hell is down? It could be up. It could be next door to heaven. Hell could be a subset of heaven, like a ghetto in the middle of a glass city.

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

That's why they call it a dream, Tone. Because it'll never be a reality.

But women grow the living dreams, the human ones." Gorbals argues. "A human being is the greatest creation of all. Each of us is a new living dream.

Fox wants too much. Sometimes in the rush of hyper-speed he dreams impossible dreams, dreams that cannot be. The difficult thing, he has discovered, is not just knowing how to dream but knowing what to dream. And the most difficult thing of all is when you find the answer to both. Then you start to believe in your dreams--the impossible dreams that can't come true.

It's just that sometimes I get so lost in the places the words take me to I forget where I am and—

Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.

Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.

Every time I looked at the sky and at my watch, that monster was still up there.

Swish, I swing from tree to tree. My feet are like hands - I'm a chimpanzee!

He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his past.

And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.

Summer was a long hot dream.

But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress.

You and I are both in the business of believing in, and promoting, things that don't yet exist. The leap of faith: it's equal parts wishful thinking, vicarious ambition, and bullshit, and yet... I can already envision the moment when I open Troy's new book and find within it, among the acknowledgments, your name and mine...

And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray over the human misery now in the world. The common lot of men binds us to each other and if we will, we may pluck virtue from tragedy.