Quotes About Imagination

La idea de Óscar de cómo se enamoraba a una jevita era hablarle de juegos de rol! ¿Qué locura es ésa? (Mi momento favorito fue un día en la guagua de la línea E cuando le dijo a una morena que estaba buenísima, ¡Si estuvieras en mi juego te daría dieciocho puntos de carisma!)

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

I was in a room of the bluest light—pure blue, cerulean blue, the blue the sky would be if it were married to the sea.

It was true, what they said about the stars. The more you looked, the more you saw.

but his mind, free to go wherever it wished, chose to move over the past, hovering atop it like a bird over some immense body of water, no shoreline in sight, only the distant reflection of himself in its shining surface for company.

He had entered sleep's antechamber, the place where dreams and memories mingled, telling their strange stories;

How wonderful, to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, borne away on words. And

the Waldorf-Astoria crystallized the improbable and fabulous. It was more than a mere hotel. It was a vast, glittering, iridescent fantasy that had been conjured up to infect millions of plain Americans with a new idea—the aspiration to lead an expensive, gregarious life as publicly as possible.

Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be That though I sing of Vampirates I never one shall see. Yea, if pirates are danger And vampires are death, I'll extend my prayer for thee- That thine eyes never see a Vampirate ...and they never lay a hand on thee

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

I have 20 000 girlfriends, all around the world.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

And yes, I confess, when I looked at him, I thought of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester and Maxim de Winter... and how could I not, when I had been waiting for them to step out of the pages of the books I loved; when I knew them so well, read them inside out and into myself?

As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths.

la hora donde el lector se enamora del autor y de los personajes de sus libros y donde el redactor de versos imagina que está hablando con algún dios o que está escribiendo para lectores poseídos por el demonio cruel de la poesía. En

if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

Metaphors, like perceptions, are drawn from common experiences.

Imagine (if you can) what the planetary model of the atom would have looked like — its satellite electrons orbiting its sunlike nucleus — if people had still thought the earth was flat. It would have been — literally — unthinkable.

Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition.

Somewhere there are gardens where peacocks sing like nightingales, somewhere there are caravans of separated lovers traveling to meet each other; there are ruby fires on distant mountains, and blue comets that come in spring like sapphires in the black sky. If this is not so, meet me in the shameful yard, and we will plant a gallows tree, and swing like sad pendulums, never once touching.

How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?

Libraries are the granary of the spirit, without which we could not survive the siege.