Quotes About Imagination

We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.

You make yourself go to sleep. You just tell yourself it's a dream.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

My God, we ate, slept and dreamed our pictures.

Art gives you power, use it wisely.

It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it.... I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.

She that with poetry is won Is but a desk to write upon.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Inspiring kids to dream big is important to me. Today's kids will be carrying out Mars missions.

I use plane rides to write down my thoughts. Such as figuring out radial distance plots for Mars missions.

The future is not what we make but what we see

Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.

Lo que sí, debía de estar soñando como nunca. Uno sueña más en camas ajenas que en la suya, porque tiene más perturbaciones físicas que verosimilizar.

Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music, painting, drawing, cinema...

Él obraba cuando todos dormían, lo que en una imperceptible torsión gramatical podía significar que su obra era el sueño.

No estaba tan seguro de que sueño y pesadilla fueran especies distintas. Quizás lo que era sueño para uno era pesadilla para otro; lo que de cualquier modo habría sido difícil de comprobar, porque si había algo intransferible de persona a persona, era lo onírico.

Sólo un loco podía renunciar a un status quo imaginario. Sólo un loco podía adoptar lo real de la realidad.

cuando veía actuar a uno de sus «colegas», estaba en la misma situación que un niño de cinco años: le parecía magia.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Man wird nicht dadurch erleuchtet, daß man sich Lichtgestalten vorstellt, sondern durch Bewusstmachung der Dunkelheit.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

From "Ships" The marketplaces of the Imagination have shops that are grand and opulent, but not of any great duration. Their transactions are brief, they dispose of their merchandise swiftly, and they are immediately liquidated.

Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted. George Saunders The Bookseller

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.