Quotes About Imagination

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best for writing fiction.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

The more you reason the less you create.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page...

She was wearing a brown tailor-made and from a strap over her shoulder hung one of those awkward-looking square bags that make you think of a Sister of Mercy taking first aid to the wounded.

Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction.

In Hollywood anything can happen, anything at all.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity. All men must escape at times from the deadly rhythm of their private thoughts. It is part of the process of life among thinking beings.

Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

Sve je magija. Samo ograni?enja onoga ko se njome služi uslovljavaju koji ?e se put slediti.

C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron

Les gens, continue Lalix, ils se croient des petites merveilles, tout ce qu'ils font, tout ce qu'ils sont. Ils s'attribuent une importance... Alors, s'il fallait, par-dessus, encaisser le récit de leurs rêves, on n'en finirait plus.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use. [--] [T]ime spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space—for wilderness and for public space—must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.