Quotes About Imagination

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie's novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel -- yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind.

Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.

Rhyming in itself is magic.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning

Spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. Wherever

If you travel long enough, every story becomes a novel

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

So I sat down and began to make notes about many trips, past and present, that left me amazed by what is, angered by what isn't, and hooked on what could be.

Don't make a story go stale by telling it to all your friends before your write it.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we loose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Our brains are organized by narrative and image. After

We can, as Martha Nussbaum (2010) suggests, benefit from the enlarged and varied imagination that literature, films, and other cultural products afford us to start to occupy different positionings than we usually occupy.

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

Never wish to 'live the way you wish' if you haven't yet created your world.

No dream is big or crazy enough.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.