Quotes About Imagination

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination. A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

Speaking-eyes, he thought, accompanied by the music of her voice.

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it

The ability of writers to imagine what is not self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. – Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

Beyond that, God will sometimes take us down a different path or on a different journey than we could have conceived or imagined. The simple phrase we are asked to insert, "If the Lord wills," is pregnant with meaning. It is a statement of surrender under the lordship and rule of God. It is an acknowledgment that our plans are not to be our own. Rather, they are God's to make, and we are to follow.

Poems build our capacity for imaginative thinking, create a tolerance for ambiguity, and foster an appreciation for the role of the unknown in human life.

Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent.

We need to rediscover how to talk about change: how to imagine very different arrangements for ourselves, free of the dangerous cant of 'revolution'.

East and West, Asia and Europe, were always walls in the mind at least as much as lines on the earth

In our political as in our economic lives, we have become consumers: choosing from a broad gamut of competing objectives, we find it hard to imagine ways or reasons to combine these into a coherent whole. We must do better than this.

Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.

in the cartoon of Sight. It

O s?-mi fac? pl?cere s?-mi imaginez o pictur? f?cut? de un maestru,chiar dac? mintea mea creeaz? doar o imita?ie palid?.

You are not making art, but art is being revealed through you.

All work nourishes the soul of your creative imagination. And all work increases your understanding of your craft. Sometimes a work takes a flower, sometimes it merely enriches the soil. And sometimes the seed of an idea, long abandoned and even forgotten, emerges suddenly in a place where it was least expected. And sometimes the blooms that it produces are the most beautiful of al.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

She had debated, in the frivolity of the beginning, whether to build a hole or a tower; a hole, because she was fond of hobbits, or a tower — well, a tower for many reasons, but chiefly because she liked spiral staircases.

Your life is your art.