Quotes About Imagination

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Everything that's created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity has no beginning. Poetry or a Joke: the act of creation lies between what's self-evident and what is permanent

Uma mulher é, às vezes, uma alternativa satisfatória à masturbação. Claro que ela exige muito mais imaginação de nossa parte.

Maschinelles Leben fördert, künstlerische Umgebung lähmt die innere Poesie.

All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

I suggest that the emergence of descriptive language is at the root of the human power of imagination, of human inventiveness, and therefore the emergence of world 3.

I'm not that crazy about reality, but that's all I've got.

People always say to me "What do you think you'd like to be When you grow up?" And I say, "Why, I think I'd like to be the sky Or be a plane or train or mouse Or maybe a haunted house Or something furry, rough and wild... Or maybe I will stay a child.

Es ist interessanter, einen Apfel auf dem Mond zu finden als einen Mondstein.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

My favorite is: 2 Corinthians 10:5: "Casting down imaginations . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

we experience dream events as real in the moment. Neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás went so far as to state that dreaming "is consciousness itself in the absence of input from the senses."3

I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down seemed a logical step.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is.