Quotes About Imagination

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Kids love to be scared; we all do. But there's a difference between leaving them hanging out there, with their fears, and then bringing them safely home. Kids love it when someone like them stands up against real evil, something really horrendous and frightening, and win.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

Man is an imagining being.

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.