Quotes About Imagination

Finding Caroline was like placing a personal ad for an imaginary friend, then having her show up at your door funnier and better than you had conceived. Apart, we had each been frightened drunks and aspiring writers and dog lovers; together, we became a small corporation.

Finding Caroline was like placing a personal ad for an imaginary friend, then having her show up at your door funnier and better than you had conceived

A library is infinity under a roof.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

If I couldn't sleep, I could read.

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns.

And he would not see that the tints which he spread upon the canvas were drawn from the cheeks of her who sat beside him." Poe

We are utterly convinced that all our notions spring full blown, as if by magic, from our own unique selves. At

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

And to what degree does the young woman invent the man she marries? She often sees in him possibilities that no one else recognizes and pictures herself within his dream as the one person who truly understands. Such illusions are the stuff of which the twenties are made.3

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Real is unreal But unreal will be real

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Yours is much worse than Eastern! You've slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk songs, added some legend-like nonsense of your own invention, and are calling it fiction!

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

She suspected that civilization had been invented to make more stories. And

Killt him a b'ar when he was only three.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life....

Birds fly, fish swim, and children play.

We've all done this, because we're so mature. You see a cow on the side of the road, stick your head out the window and go "Mooo!" Like we expect the cow to think, "Hey, there's another cow, driving that car! How can he afford that?"

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.