Quotes About Imagination

Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize." "Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

Sometimes it is better not to speak of what we see in our dreams. Sometimes our dreams belong only to us.

Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.

Mostly, kids were expected to entertain themselves and stay out of their parents' hair. To that end, you were sent outside to play at the drop of a hat. It wasn't an option; it was a standing mandate. If there wasn't a winter blizzard or a spring rainstorm or a summer heat wave, you went outside and stayed outside until the next mealtime came around.

there were several times when Shea wished that Panamon Creel would tire of his own voice for a few minutes. The tall thief carried on a steady conversation with his companions, with himself, and on occasion with no one in particular, for the entire morning. He talked about everything imaginable, including a good many things about which he seemed to know nothing.

When you were possessed of a deceitful mind, it wasn't difficult to imagine that everyone else was the same. There was nothing the ragpicker could do about that. Not now. But if the Troll failed to do as he was told Ã¢â'¬Â¦

It didn't hurt to consider things that might one day be. Or even things that might never be.

We have our eyes and ears, and we learn more than you suspect. Our problem is not one of ignorance; it is one of complacency. We are too quick to accept the life we know and not quick enough to embrace the life we only imagine. We think that events must proceed as we dictate, and that no other voice will ever have meaning but ours.

Sometimes things feel real when they aren't. It might all just be nonsense you've persuaded yourself is something more.

Perhaps it was all an elaborate charade of the sort envisioned by Miles, where the dragons were large iguanas and the knights and wizards were all supplied by Central Casting. Perhaps the dream was a sham, an imitation of what the imagination would have it truly be. Even if it were all real – if it were all as described, all as the artist had rendered it to be – still it might be less than the dream. It might be as ordinary in truth as his present life.

If you were a witch and you could do magic, you could wear whatever clothing you wanted.

Besides, reality did not require that you forgo your dreams, and dreams sometimes revealed paths that led to new realities.

It is said that an eighteenth-century bishop who read Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels threw the book into the fire, indignantly declaring that he didn't believe a word of it. He obviously thought that the story was meant to be true, but suspected that it was invented. Which, of course, is just what it is. The bishop was dismissing the fiction because he thought it was fiction.

It is language's lack of visualisability which confers such enviable freedom upon it. Seeing language as no more than an image or representation of reality is a way of restricting its liberty.

Language is a work of astonishing creativity. It is by far the most magnificent artefact humanity has ever come up with. It even surpasses the movies of Mel Gibson in this respect.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

It is a mistake to say something cannot be done simply because you don't know how to do it.

Then you understand the wide range of the totally new and unexpected creations they can sometimes come up with. Most people's minds travel along the same road traveled by everyone else, never straying off the route of conventional wisdom. Makers know no such boundaries. They have a rare ability to make their own roads of thought. Their minds venture through the wilderness of all that exists, combining random bits of knowledge in ways that have never been imagined before.

he had created a solution where it had never before existed, or even been imagined.

After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just an empty wish.

That's a maker," Isidore said. "That's the way they are. Creativity in large and small ways defines their nature in everything they do.

Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create.

Reality could seldom match the imagination, and in the imagination, the pain was real.