Quotes About Imagination

A man who ain't got ideas of his own should be mighty careful who he borrows 'em from.

When you're in a coffin it's hard to think out of the box. Jack Taylor

Nightmares are the dress rehearsal for the dread awaiting.

Dead children do not give us memories, they give us dreams." Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking   I

You can travel without moving.

Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all—not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

The best speakers are voracious readers. Reading is like priming the pump. If we only rely on our own imagined creativity and genius, we will soon be out of material and out of work. Creativity is really at its peak when we are stimulated by the thoughts and work of others.

The man who invented cats' eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener.

Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it

When you are a presence, there are many things you need not do, for it is simply understood you can do them. So you don't do them. You don't risk what you need not risk, you let others' imaginations do them for you, for they do them better than you can. Like the man who opens his mouth to prove he's a fool, often the more you do, the more you look like everyone else.

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall.

To hell with facts! We need stories!

High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

Do AIS dream in electric sleep? He hoped it had nanosecond nightmares.

Fascinating,' said Darvin. 'The mystery of life. The miracle of reproduction. I don't know why I didn't learn all this in school.' 'I did not,' said Orro. 'I read it in an imaginative but broadly accurate illustrated treatise inscribed, if memory serves, on the wall of a municipal pissery.

I write thrillers for the same reason that people read them – it's escapism.

Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without a doubt, than the short little bits that you might get if you're into the 30-second digital mode.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.