Quotes About Imagination

As the mind explores the symbol, it is led to ideas that lie beyond the grasp of reason.

We have, therefore, two kinds of thinking: directed thinking, and dreaming or fantasy-thinking.

We find . . . in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers, and even scientists owe some of their best ideas to inspirations . . . from the unconscious.

Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books

Cody nodded as if Larry could see him. He could hear Larry shuffling papers.

he had preferred it to heaven because at that age Joe didn't think there could be trout streams in the clouds.

Once, she'd dressed up as a French maid. Another time it was a candy striper. Both outfits had really revved him up.

Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker.

I've always thought that as long as there were books left to read, life would always be worth living.

This fashion for symbolic designs that people have to puzzle out, it tires me. There are enough real mysteries in the world.' 'But you paint, sir.' 'If ever I find time I do. But I try in my poor way to show people directly and clearly, like Master Holbein. Art should resolve the mysteries of our being, not occlude them further.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

I think that I also don't know what possibility and obligation are, but I know very clearly what need is. Desire? … Desire, we make up.

All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be if it were completely founded in reality. I declare implausibility a must if the reader is not to be bored to tears.

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David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: "[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

a New York Times column on the topic, David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: "[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

pues que la vida es tan corta,/ soñemos, alma, soñemos...

porque en el mundo, (...) todos los que viven sueÑan.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

I believe half of a writer's job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about another world that entertains you and informs you.

A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.