Quotes About Imagination

You can never read too many books, any kind.

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don't have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.

Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.

If I'd grown up here,I'd have had headless ghosts for playmates and kept my room in a tower. Alan maneuvered around one of the winding curves that only added to the atmosphere. The sea was close enough so its scent and sound drifted in the open windows. There aren't any ghosts, though my father periodically threatened to import a few bloodthirsty ones from Scotland. With his lips just curved, he sent Shelby a quick sidelong look. He keeps his office in a tower room.

She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Her heart was the one thing she'd always been sure of. Often she imagined of how it would be like to lose it, the thrill and the anxiety of the fall. She'd always wondered who it would be who would make everything inside her yearn. How they would be together--for in her dreams he loved her as well.

BY THE TIME SHE WAS EIGHT, MACKENSIE ELLIOT HAD BEEN married fourteen times. She'd married each of her three best friends—as both bride and groom—her best friend's brother (under his protest), two dogs, three cats, and a rabbit. She'd served at countless other weddings as maid of honor, bridesmaid, groomsman, best man, and officiant.

You look great, Senator.I think I could get used to seeing you wet and naked. Lazily she dipped back to float. If you ever decide to ditch politics, I imagine you could have a successful career as a lifeguard at a nude beach. It's always good to have something to fall back on.

Well, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.

No puedes esperar que existan los finales felices. Tienes que creer en ellos. Luego haz el trabajo, asume los riesgos. Mata al dragón, besa a la princesa, o a la rana, y derrota a la malvada bruja.

If she'd had enough thread, she could've crocheted the Taj Mahal.

No," Morgana admitted, "I can't imagine

You use the fairies where you find them.

She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.

Was there anything more powerful than the ability to create beauty?

profession." "Art

Books are the world.

Acreditas em magia, Simon? Não estou a falar em truques de cartas, mas no tipo de coisas que se lêm nas histórias como o Harry Potter ou o Hobbit. - Se não fossem reais, porque é que haveria tantos livros, filmes e tretas assim acerca disso?

And he said I read too many mystery novels, which is impossible. You can never read too many books, any kind.

You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out.

Stairs are sturdy, but need to be sanded and buffed up." He led her up, and she imagined paint on the walls