Quotes About Imagination

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

I think with my right hand.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Age 80. — In a dream you are never eighty.

Action, indeed... is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

These days I lived in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which triggered memories from the past.

Dream, dream, and dream some more. Don't be afraid to chase those dreams to the end of the world. Don't worry about the people warning you against this and that. They live in tiny minds and live out tiny lives.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Is like finding a diamond asteroid in the rings of Saturn

What do these children do without story books? Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them. I couldn't live without them. Naftali said.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?

Nightly awaits that sweet address Principality of Sleep Happy Land of Forgetfullness

If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.