Quotes About Imagination

If you cast doubt aside then you go beyond where even you could have imagined ....

Gazing out of the window, the gravel path roared as it was crushed into submission under the wheels of the car that was taking me towards a menacing looking medieval castle with two huge and terrifying turrets that seemingly reached out towards me. I imagined that I was the gravel and the wheels of the car were the social care system.

The first and most important step to being more creative is to believe you are a creative person!

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

Don't wait to think out of the box – create your own box.

Turning images from within our minds into reality is a gift we are all born with.

Philosophers think, creators make!

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives.

We can't all come and go by Bubble!

People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Writing is a form of mischief.

It takes almost as much imagination to justify what you write as it does to write it.

Take me to a world where I can be alive

Look, I made a hat... Where there never was a hat

Daydreams may be the main source of creativity, but night dreams are the main source of solving the problems engendered by the daydreams.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

All that you can imagine you already know

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.

What one thinks of any region, while traveling through, is the result of at least three things: what one knows, what one imagines, and how one is disposed [Barry Lopez].

Stefansson was once asked by an Eskimo to whom he was showing a pair of binoculars for the first time whether he could 'see into tomorrow' with them. . . . What the Inuk probably meant was, Are those things powerful enough to see something that will not reach you for another day. . . . which you yourself will not reach for another day [Barry Lopez]?

I wanted to make it your fantasy high school. Whatever your feelings were about going to school - and most people were not happy in high school - I wanted to make everyone feel this is the school they wish they had gone to.

Dreaming men are haunted men.