Quotes About Imagination

improbabilities is a word few children know, and even if they did, why, they would dismiss the notion with a single hand fluttering overhead as they danced to the horizon. Because it will not do to creep timorously into the future, no, one should leap, sail singing through the air, and who can say where one's feet will finally set down on this solid, unknown land?

How he knew no one could say. How he thought, no one could imagine. How deep and vast his love, no one could conceive.

The more nearly a man knows himself for what he is, the nearer he approaches wisdom. The more his imagination about himself diverges from what he actually is, the madder he becomes. –Rodney Collin

I want a chance to be Space Girl, too.

Creation is intuitive; reason comes later.

Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

A nice place to visit, before you sleep.

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.

She enjoyed being invisible, imagining herself as a three-dimensional linocut - the empty space, the bit that's cut out.

In one of the paradoxes of storytelling, readers want to predict how the story will end (or how it will get to the end), but they want to be wrong.

Go ahead and break the rules, flip expectations, twist the story world around backwards—as long as it's in the service of your readers.

our minds can do strange things, can convince us of things that aren't real. Sometimes we see things that aren't really there, sometimes we don't see things that are. We're all experts at fictionalizing the truth.

Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them.

So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.

The march of technology expands the space of possibility around us, but how we explore that space is up to us.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

Books are in the holy shape. They are silent and yet they speak directly into the imagination. You can burn them but they are more powerful than fire. All the knowledge of the ancient ones are put into them. The secrets of the age of vision. - Paris, See: Season 1 Ep.2

The actual figure of Pac-Man came about as I was having pizza for lunch. I took one wedge and there it was, the figure of Pac-Man.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

more than solve them faster. You can tackle problems that haven't even been considered. You can build your own paradigms

The high holy day of Google culture is April 1, when imaginations already encouraged to run wild are channeled into elaborate pranks requiring months of work. The effort involves considerable organization, as ideas go through an elaborate approval process to find a place in the company's ever-increasing roster of seasonal spoofs.