Quotes About Imagination

The future? The future was the clay in their hands.

Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

A writer is an explorer. She knows she wants to get somewhere, but she doesn't know if the somewhere even exists yet. It is still to be created. A Galápagos of the imagination. A whole new theory of who we are. Don

Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there, but I'll tell you anyways: once upon a time and long ago...

As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.

For all its imagined moments, literature works in unimaginable ways.

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

it is not true that we have only one life to live. If we dwell in literature we can have as many lives as we want.

To summon things into being by the mysterious alchemy of language. Atlantic. Atlas. Aloft. He was holding the image of his own people up: sometimes it was weight enough to stagger under.

Ullmann had once written that the secret of every work of art was the annihilation of matter through form.

So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In

Memory is three-quarters imagination and all the rest is lies.

The mind is a garden, said he.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. ~ Lady Norcroft

Mere instruction in morality is not sufficient to nurture the virtues. It might even backfire, especially when the presentation is heavily exhortative and the pupil's will is coerced. Instead a compelling vision of the goodness of goodness itself needs to be presented in a way that is attractive and stirs the imagination.

The fruit of the garden is not restricted to what we eat. Every garden lends something more to the imagination - beauty.

The deep truths of a good story, especially fairy tales, cannot be revealed through discursive analysis—otherwise, why tell the story?

Literature is a dictation of soul

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

suggested to him that we would promise each other to invent at least one amusing story daily, about some incident that could happen one day after our liberation. He