Quotes About Imagination

Okay, so you spoke to her. She was definitely not a ghost. Did she ever reply?" Bong Cha narrowed her eyes at Sam, deciding if her grandson was trying to trick her into appearing foolish. "Yes, in my mind, she did. I knew your mother so well I could play her part.

There are no ghosts, but up here", she gestured toward her head "it's a haunted house".

So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet. Something kids like us would have wanted to play to forget their troubles for a while.

Reading a great book.

The man who has no memory makes one out of paper.

The greatest pleasures of his life had been when he was by her side, playing or inventing. And how could she not feel that as well? There would never be another Sadie, and now this one was lost to him.

they found themselves drawn to Japanese references over and over: the deceptively innocent paintings of Yoshitomo Nara; Miyazaki anime like Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke; other, more adult anime like Akira and Ghost in the Shell, both of which Sam had loved; and of course, Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, the first of which is The Great Wave.

He wanted Ichigo's life, a lifetime of endless, immaculate tomorrows, free of mistakes and the evidence of having lived.

To make a game is to imagine the person playing it.

A nostalgia for something that had never been? An envy at their intimacy? She wondered what it would have been like if Sam had been her lover.

The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I'm feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.

You aren't just a gamer when you play anymore. You're a builder of worlds, and if you're a builder of worlds, your feelings are not as important as what your gamers are feeling. You must imagine them at all times. There is no artist more empathetic than the game designer." Sadie the gamer found this scene sexist and strange

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

Playing Dungeons & Dragons in a group of two people is a peculiar, intimate experience

The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.

There are no ghosts, but up here" --she gestured to her head-- "It's a haunted house.

We had so much freedom—creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren't even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.

A bromide about the creative process is that an artist's first idea is usually the best one.

Go ask Sadie what it would take to turn Mapletown into an online role-playing game. And here I am. I obey the giant bird of dreams.

Sometimes, he would make a villain of her and imagine ways that she had slighted him: that time she had turned away from him; that time she had avoided his eyes. But she hadn't done those things -- it would have been almost better if she had.

There are no ghosts, but up here' -- she gestured toward her head-- 'it's a haunted house.

A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.

No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World Inside

Um lugar não é um lugar de verdade sem uma livraria.