Quotes About Imagination

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

Memories create our stories, but our stories also create our memories.

Cognitive psychologist Maryanne Garry finds that as people tell you how an event might have happened, it starts to feel real to them. Children are especially vulnerable to this suggestion.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

The power of the human mind is a wondrous thing. Even now, we can only begin to imagine what it is capable of.

I believe in books.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.

Here, we turn everything into art.

I'll start with the fairy tale.

Compreendo que o sonho de pobre é sonhar, apenas sonhar.

If she dreamed, she did not remember when she awoke.

She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.

Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.

I never needed eyes to see — never. I simply needed vision and belief.

In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own childhood.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they're up to and deal with what idiots called FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.