Quotes About Imagination

As a result, we are born pattern-spotters, seeing faces in the clouds, ghosts in the shadows, and mythical beasts in the stars.

Mr Haywood is Ernie,' the Lamb told Robert. 'The one who thinks Anthea's pretty.

Kate Saunders

Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

Pretend to relax

I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to set my books. But as the characters come first, who they are will usually dictate where a book is set.

Here's a thought. What if we were to . 

Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek, gentle, nonsensical, shilly-shallying snow-storms; not the sort where the flakes float lazily down from the sky as if they didn't care whether they ever got here or not, and then melt away as soon as they touch the earth, but a regular business-like whizzing, whirring, blurring, cutting snow-storm, warranted to freeze and stay on!

They were happy because they didn't have enough imagination to look ahead, he thought, and anyone who tried to tell them there were dangers was by definition an enemy of the community.

Wishful thinking, no more than wishful thinking.

When I am outside in the fresh air my ideas take a higher direction," Napoleon said. "I cannot understand how some men can work successfully if they are always inside, beside the fireplace, without communication with the sky."30

Reality is unbelievably terrifying after one has done nothing but dream.

Desire is story itself.

Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Abracadabra! Fiddle-fee-fee! Open this book and read it to me!

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner. "Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things…

The place you are going towards doesn't exist yet, you must build it when you come to the right spot.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

Every memory we have changes slightly each time we think about it. We add stuff we learn in other places, or we forget stuff that doesn't seem important anymore. Or you think you remember something, like from your childhood, but actually you've just seen so many pictures of it, and your parents have told you about it, so you think you remember it, but you don't. A memory is a process. Instead of a thing. Like a story we tell ourselves that changes from the standpoint we're looking at it.

The right words don't come... the right words usually don't for me. I mostly experience the world in images. I wish I could show the film I'd taken of this girl in my mind.

Katherine Kurtz