Quotes About Imagination

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Una delle prime risorse dello scrittore professionista che Isabella aveva imparato da me era l'arte e la pratica di procrastinare. Ogni veterano del mestiere sa che qualunque occupazione, dal temperare la matita al catalogare le ragnatele, ha la priorità al momento di sedersi alla scrivania per spremersi le meningi.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

dos fugitivos cabalgando a lomos de un libro, dispuestos a escaparse a través de mundos de ficción y sueños de segunda mano.

Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.

Reality never beats fiction, at least not quality fiction.

Al poco, me asaltó la idea de que tras la cubierta de cada uno de aquellos libros se abría un universo infinito por explorar y de que, más allá de aquellos muros, el mundo dejaba pasar la vida en tardes de fútbol y seriales de radio, satisfecho con ver hasta allí donde alcanza su ombligo y poco más.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it

The apartment was directly above the bookshop, a legacy from my grandfather that specialized in rare collectors' editions and secondhand books—an enchanted bazaar, which my father hoped would one day be mine. I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Ya lo decía Unamuno: que inventen ellos, que nosotros opinaremos.

Cada libro tiene un alma

Davvero non hai letto nessuno di questi libri?- gli domandò. -I libri sono noiosi- -I libri sono specchi; riflettono ciò che abbiamo dentro- >>

This is the golden rule that sustains every artifice of paper and ink. Because when the lights go out, when the music ends and the stalls are empty again, the only thing that matters is the mirage that has been engraved in the theater of the imagination all readers hold in their mind.

Have you ever thought of writing a biography?" "No. I write fiction." "Some would argue that no genre is more fictitious than a biography.

Sleep is for dreamers.

we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

Os livros são espelhos:só se vê neles o que a pessoa tem dentro.

it occurred to me that perhaps the papier-mâche world that I accepted as real was only a stage setting.

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Ogni libro, ogni volume possiede un'anima, l'anima di chi lo ha scritto e l'anima di coloro che lo hanno letto, di chi ha vissuto e di chi ha sognato grazie ad esso.

Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.