Quotes About Imagination

Books are not men and yet they are alive, they are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Icarus, Icarus, though the end is piteous, Yet forever, yea, forever we shall see thee rising thus, See the first supernal glory, not the ruin hideous.

I'm waiting.... For something new and strange, Something I've dreamt about in some deep sleep, Truer than any waking.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

If you have imaginary enemies, it is possible to have imaginary victories.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

1. Sustantivos (Preguntas: ¿Qué específicamente? O ¿Quién específicamente?) 2. Verbos (Pregunta: ¿Cómo específicamente?) 3. Reglas (Pregunta: ¿Qué sucedería si…?) 4. Generalizaciones (Preguntas: ¿Todo…? ¿Siempre…? ¿Nunca…?) 5. Comparaciones (Preguntas: ¿Mejor que qué?, ¿Comparado con qué?)

Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who had not allowed his doubt to curdle into cynicism, who, for all his dark prognostication, was a figure of tremendous hope. The evidence was in his books, which performed the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination. Like any decent parent, he had made the astonishing sorrow of the examined life bearable.

And it is a fact an absolute fact that there are creatures on the surface of this earth that have never been studied by man . . . There are other worls - worlds within this world - that we can only begin to imagine. We may think we have seen all that there is to be seen on this tiny planet of ours. We most certainly have not - and perhaps never shall.

Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

No one creates a great life without reconnecting to the enthusiasm experienced in childhood.

a dream is only a memory of the future

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.

Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one.