Quotes About Imagination

I fed a dragon a fruit tart.

thought of it. She didn't have a clear idea what she intended to do, but the one thing she

The peculiarity of innovative fantasies in the form of works of art is that they are fantasies kindled by material which is accessible to many people. In a word, they are de-privatised fantasies. That sounds simple, but the whole difficulty of artistic creation shows itself when someone tries to cross this bridge — the bridge of de-privatisation. It could also be called the bridge of sublimation.

That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.

Professor Branestawm

some of the characters are

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Whenever I can't sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I've been assassinated. I've found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I'm in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time.

but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

Anything experienced through the screen of a television becomes a TV show.

The future is always impossible.

My imagination has problems with plot mechanics.

Its easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.