Quotes About Imagination

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants? YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine...

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we'd been at all competent.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?

In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

This is a lovely party, said the Bursar to a chair, I wish I was here.

Terry Pratchett

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.

And I went on reading; and, since if you read enough books you overflow, I eventually became a writer.

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories.