Quotes About Imagination

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Isn't that what fairy tales are, anyway? What we tell ourselves about ourselves, just in an indirect way, with elves and magic and monsters to make it all safe?

When you're a kid, facts don't matter. It's how hard you believe. How much you wish.

Putting it in the spank bank for later.

Now you're the adult who doesn't believe this is really happening. And, what always happens to that adult? Do you still remember, or do you forget all the true things when you grow up, Peter Pan?

for others gating remains very open, especially among young children, artists, schizophrenics, specialists of the sacred such as shamans and Buddhist masters, and those ingesting psychotropics.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

Art is a requirement for life.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy— and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.