Quotes About Imagination

As a child, I was abandoned in a story made of trees. Here's the small gasp of this clearing come "upon" "again

We all have some spark of creativity inside us. You just haven't found what lights yours yet.

Okay, first of all, how hot can a billy goat with a blowtorch really get? And why does he have a blowtorch in the first place?

I still like to write, but I mostly dabble for my own enjoyment. I discovered I'm very happy surrounded by books written by other people—and the readers who love them.

If I had grown up in a stable household with two well-adjusted and loving parents studied hard in school graduated with honors gone to college gotten a degree found a decent job met a wonderful girl fallen in love gotten married and lived happily ever after what in the hell would I have to write about?

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven't been made yet.

El arte de la noche ha invadido el arte de la vida.

I am going to the white kingdom where the colours if all things can be found.

There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.

Ryder has appeared in my dreams once in a while, and in my thoughts a little more often through the last five years (...)

When I think of the future, I never see myself moving forward in time. I actually see time moving backward towards me.

Giving a child a doll with breasts is projecting her out of her childhood into the teenage world. Barbie dolls and those with "attitude" like Bratz dolls form a multimillion-dollar enterprise that shortchanges the world of the young child.

You can nourish the development of your child's imagination by providing nourishing images from stories the child hears and limiting images the child receives from television, computer games, videos, and movies.

The years from three to six provide a lifelong foundation for creativity that should not be undervalued or foreshortened

fantasy and imagination, which are so natural for the young child, form a better foundation for later creative thinking than early learning. Creative thinking is more needed in our highly technological world than four-year-olds who can push the buttons on the computer.

I love Raina Telgemeier

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses — would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

Yes, everything that is truly seen must become a poem.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Arabia, like Ireland, is mostly a country in a movie.

satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!" (MC, 149).

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.