Quotes About Imagination

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

That was a tall order for Ivy. Sarcasm was kind of her native tongue, though she was fluent in "stern disappointment" and "light condescension" as well. She was also a good friend. Well, imaginary friend.

It's okay. I'm a rhinoceros astronaut.

Time to think like a guard. It was hard, as he didn't have a guard's hat.

Your hallucination has hallucinations." "Yes.

Es el intelecto del genio lo que reverenciamos? [...] Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que lo crees antes que nadie. No es la belleza lo que admiramos, ni la fuerza del intelecto, ni la inventiva, ni la estética, ni la capacidad misma. El mayor talento que creemos que puede tener un hombre debe ser la novedad.

Wondering where the Mokians get all those shark teeth? Well it involves using children who read the last pages of books first as bait.

She bent down, looking at his hand from different angles, like a child expecting to find a hidden piece of candy. "What is it?" Her voice was like a whisper. "You can show me. I won't tell anyone. Is it a treasure? Have you cut off a piece of the night's cloak and tucked it away? Is it the heart of a beetle, so tiny yet powerful?

Anything that is possible is actually reality, given infinity.

Brandon Sanderson

People learn things from art.

That was the thing about omens—they were made up. Imagined signals of something nebulous. So why not make them up to be something positive?

I didn't know there were so many books in the world," Syl said. "Won't they use up all the words? Seems like eventually you'd say everything that could be said!

People in a group each pretend to be someone different, and tell a story together.

Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's live.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, then what does it matter whether the people in them actually lived?

Keeping track of forty-seven hallucinations is tough enough. If I had to imagine their in-laws too, I just might end up going crazy.

So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them that you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.

This is nice. Very roomy for a shack on a mountainside in the middle of a deadly jungle on an isolated island surrounded by monsters.

Brandon Sanderson

is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. THE

Siempre fui un sueño. Un sueño maravilloso. Quizá el primero jamás concedido por una pesadilla...

I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.