Quotes About Imagination

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too.

Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books! –

If a man "whose talk is of oxen" should become an opium-eater, the probability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream at all)—he will dream about oxen.

thou buildest upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain, cities and temples.

I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an artist this may have some advantages.

Cut my legs off but don't take away my ability to think, dream, and write

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

I was a very naughty kid, who'd say 'I'd write tomorrow.'

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'

I think I'd be depressed if everything were nearly all known, but I don't feel any danger of that happening.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.