Quotes About Imagination

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

a place where children did not write and read was a woeful place, indeed.

I've taken to talking to the ground as if it is Stacy. I tell her how happy I am to still be with her, even though we can't see each other. I'm sure she feels the same way, comforting her lonely nights by knowing that I am still inside her, thinking about her. After my voice starts to get scratchy, I just speak to her in my head.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

He wrote up the cases of his own patients who believed themselves to be someone other than themselves. There were Virgin Marys, Christs and Gods, Marilyn Monroes and Elvis Presleys. Movie stars and even characters from literature took over the lives of Ambrose's patients. Jane Eyre sometimes screamed in an imaginary red room at Mandala.

I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

Everybody can tell a story but it is different to create a real book, a real literary text that has several voices in itself and that breathes with its own mouth and has its own lungs and looks toward its own body. To create that body you have to start out with a stone and stones do not have lungs or air in themselves.

Yo me quedé despierta viéndole dormir, quería ver qué cosas soñaba...

Mi patria escabrosa y recóndita, siempre esperando por mí. Riachuelos por cuya corriente huyen los peces rojos del pretérito imperfecto, montañas dentadas de gerundios, cuestas a rribas flanqueadas por signos de admiración y puntos suspensivos, angostos desfiladeros donde se hila la oración compuesta, árboles frondosos de adjetivos o desnudos de ellos, praderas atisbadas en sueños y a las que sólo se llega por el puente inestable del condicional.

Porque las cosas y las personas que sólo se han visto con los ojos de la imaginación pueden seguir viviendo y siendo iguales, aunque desaparezcan en la realidad. Cuando se han visto y luego se dejan de ver, el cambio es mayor.

Era come se mi stessi chiamando da un giardino incantato. Io lo intuivo, ma facevo fatica ad entrare, non trovavo il cancello, o non sapevo spingerlo. Succede come nei sogni, saltano sempre fuori le comparse di un'altra storia. S'intrufolano per fare confusione. Sono quelle che fanno più baccano, ma non contano niente. Non devi farci caso.

Los cuentos bonitos siempre hacen perder la noción del tiempo y, gracias a ellos, nos salvamos del agobio de lo práctico.

There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes.

Mi libro se quedará solo danzando desordenado y loco su danza sonámbula

La manera más eficaz de "reescribir" una vida es mezclar con descaro verdades con grandes mentiras

Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return.