Quotes About Imagination

There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.

I hoarded all the stories that reflected the light and dazzled me.

And in my head I laid out the stories the islanders told me... the flakes of silver, the seals who are wiser than humans, the girl who floated like a patchwork star.

Feathers... drift on the water like dreams.

Tell me about Stackpole then... Like I am now, but smaller.

and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.

Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were.

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Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.

Steampunk!" Cisco whooped with excitement. "Yes! Now all is forgiven.

The novelist Ian McEwan, who credits fiction with providing the possibility of "imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself," argues that this process is "the basis of all sympathy": "Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.

Dia membayangkan dirinya dipintal oleh 'Sang Waktu, Pemintal paling hebat dan paling lama dari semuanya', tapi mengakui bahwa,'tempat pemintalannya adalah tempat rahasia, pekerjaannya tak bersuara dan Tangan-Tangan Sang Waktu diredam.

different way. He's into random splotches.

An excess of fiction could make reality seem supremely dull with its crappy dialogue and lack of coincidences

Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.

WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I was so girlie and ambitious, I was practically a drag queen. I wanted to be everything at once: a prima ballerina, an actress, a model, a famous artist, a nurse, an Ice Capades dancer, and Batgirl. I spent inordinate amounts of time waltzing around our living room with a doily on my head, imagining in great detail my promenade down the runway as the new Miss America, during which time I would also happen to receive a Nobel Prize for coloring.

Sometimes she wasn't even sure she existed and could not have said what her truest feelings were, or indeed where she ended or began. The girl felt she had no proper shape, no sides as it were, and she dreamed of being more fixed, more clever, of winning the admiration of brilliant unknown people. In the future, when she grew up, her life would be as beautiful as a book, peopled by interesting and fascinating things, sweeter than music or love. -- Susan Johnson, The Broken Book

Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.

My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Imagination turns experiences into anxious feelings, troubles and sadness or, on the flipside, excitement, happiness and contentment. The

Most of us don't have nightmares that come to life and try to kill us.