Quotes About Imagination

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

I've invented entire royal bloodlines—and, on a couple of occasions, entire countries—just to get into decent parties

Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

The Joke is not a collection of words; it's the scene that appears in the listener's mind as a result of those words

Creativity comes with that little bit of extra effort.

Inspiration is usually stingy.

Writing good humor requires a considerable amount of imagination and a great deal of discipline.

You, The audience, furnish it's propulsion. With a wondrous leap of imagination, you make it into a real spaceship that can take us into the far reaches of the galaxy and sometimes even to the depths of the human soul.

I became a reader - thank God I became a reader. I lived in a dream world because it was a hell of a lot better world.

Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived. Gene Roddenberry

He didn't want to think about the implications of this mysterious ability to see events that occurred in places where he wasn't physically present. What did they call it on those late night radio shows back in the twenty-first century? Oh yes, remote viewing.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Everything Is a dream until you decide to make it real

As a man thinks so it becomes.

and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out, and have nothing to worry about, except the next page of whatever she was reading.

And she didn't want great secrets of necromancy, or any other sort of magic. She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job.

all of us who are sealed to the Library are people who have chosen this way of life because we love books. None of us wanted to save worlds. I mean, not that we object to saving worlds..." She shrugged, picking up her teacup again "We want books. We love books. We live with books.

We don't want to be stuck on the train with nothing to read.

She just wanted - had always wanted - a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job. Getting the books - now, that was what *really* mattered to her.