Quotes About Imagination

All I manage to glimpse is an effect of melting light on one side of her misty hair, and in this, I suspect, I am insidiously influenced by the standard artistry of modern photography and I feel how much easier writing must have been in former days when one's imagination was not hemmed in by innumerable visual aids, and a frontiersman looking at his first giant cactus or his first high snows was not necessarily reminded of a tire company's pictorial advertisement.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Como suele ocurrir con muchas personas que no se preocupan por la religión en su vida habitual, inventé rápidamente un Dios suave, tierno, lacrimoso, y susurré una plegaria personal. Permíteme llegar a tiempo, permítele resistir hasta que llegue, permítele decirme su secreto.

Ama Gogol'un tüfekleri havada as?l? durur ve ateÅŸlenmez; zira onun an??t?rmalar?n?n cazibesi de, bu an??t?rmalardan hiçbir ÅŸey ç?kmayacak olmas?ndan kaynaklan?r.

the book like a sleigh left my lap...

There are nights when as soon as I lie down My bed sails off to Russia.

On all those random occasions, I seemed to myself as implausible a father as she seemed to be a daughter.

I dreamt of you last night—as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

The truth is that great novels are great fairy tales... literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him.

We shall do our best to avoid the factual error of looking for so-called real life in novels. Let us not try and reconcile the fictions of facts with the facts of fiction. ... A master piece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

We shall do our best to avoid the factual error of looking for so-called real life in novels. Let us not try and reconcile the fiction of facts with the facts of fiction. ... A master piece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

I not only debar too definite a planet from any role in my story – from the role every dot and full stop should play in my story (which I see as a kind of celestial chart).

Every great writer is a great deceiver

Oh, 'philosophy.' You know. When you try to imagine a mirok [small pink potato] without the least reference to any you have eaten or will eat.

She wore poetry.

What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back.

Martin was one of those people for whom a good book before sleep is something to look forward to all day. Such a person, upon happening to recall, amidst routine occupations, that on his bedside table a book is waiting for him, in perfect safety, feels a surge of inexpressible happiness.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

El espacio es un enjambre en los ojos; y el tiempo un zumbido en los oídos. En esta colmena estoy encerrado. Sin embargo, si antes de vivir hubiésemos sido capaces de imaginar la vida, ¡qué loca, imposible, indeciblemente extraña, maravillosa absurdidad nos hubiera parecido!» Pálido fuego. Canto tercero. Línea 220

Zij verslindt boeken, jaar in jaar uit zonder ooit toe te staan dat een boek haar verslindt. Zij leest niet om de dingen beter te begrijpen, maar om ze op afstand te houden. Een boek, dat is een haardscherm tussen haar en de rest van de wereld.

os próprios clientes não são capazes de imaginar como criar novos espaços de mercado inexplorado.

industry history shows, new market spaces are being created every day and are fluid with imagination.

Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring.