Quotes About Imagination

Every problem has a better solution when you start thinking about it differently than the normal way.

We believe that innovative authors are more likely to come from people who are independent and won't work in a software 'factory' or 'bureaucracy.

pipe dream." This term meant the same then as it does today, a way of describing an irrational sense of optimism. Irrational or not, this is opium's greatest gift to the smoker: boundless optimism—the kind that one rarely experiences beyond childhood. All good things seem possible; problems are easily solvable; obstacles are always surmountable.

God pity the poor novelist.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

Un libro es una máquina para fabricar sueños. Está hecho para sacarte de este mundo.

For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or later it is beaten out of us, the glory faded, and by the age of seven most of us are nothing but wretched little adults.

A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and each ending seems to us an expression of something that is buried deep within the tale and can be brought to light in that way and no other.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.

Without music, the prehistoric past is just too quiet to be believed.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.

Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.

Volume 2 will begin with Cervantes and end with the most interesting novel of 2012.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Fiction is empathy technology.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.