Quotes About Imagination

Too often, those who do not dream seek to destroy the dreamer by waking him.

drays. Never did he see one but that he thought of his

Rob J. teve um breve pesadelo de médico, imaginando o som de 122.000 homens tossindo ao mesmo tempo.

reading a book doesn't mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

she has a blank sheet to write upon.

Education should not be a matter of pouring water into a vessel [...] it should be conceived as laying out a string along which learners proceed in their own ways, exercising and improving their creative capacities and imaginations, and experiencing the joy of discovery.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind

Arthur shook his head. 'I've always been terrible at colors,' he said, 'It comes from having grown up with the single-row box of crayons instead of the big box. If I'd had the big box I would now know taupe and cerise and ecru. Instead, all I know is burnt sienna. And what good does it do me? Never once I have I heard anything described as burnt sienna. Never once have I heard anyone say, Follow that burnt sienna car.

I can't understand why anyone would write fiction when what actually happens is so amazing.

I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving.

Craig was a nice guy, don't get me wrong, but he was so low-key that once I'd gotten to know him, I was almost completely unable to have even imaginary conversations with him while cooking his recipes. Around

Eventually, I'll have to start breathing the air in today's New York again, but on the other hand, perhaps I won't have to. I'll find another book I love and disappear into it. Wish me luck.

Or, as E. L. Doctorow once wrote, far more succinctly "I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

Here's a strange thing: Whenever I read a book I love, I start to remember all the other books that have sent me into rapture, and I can remember where I was living and the couch I was sitting on when I read them.

Oímos montones de historias a lo largo de la infancia y, cuando nos hacemos mayores, de repente descubrimos algo que no pasa la prueba olfativa. En cierto modo, son demasiado redondas.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.