Quotes About Imagination

The little boy in me still believes everything is possible. Mom, you taught me this. And you lied. But so does art and so does hope.

The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

As children, when we are under the age of five, we tend to believe everything exists. We are open to all possibilities. For whatever reason, children, as well as older people and those who are nearing the time to pass on from this world, seem to be able to see and communicate with spirits or beings from the other side of life. I have

Maybe, as children, we are open to the spirit world, and see things adults or non-sensitive people don't see. Since children are not able to distinguish things or spirits from another reality, from beings in our world, perhaps they believe their invisible playmates are

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. Itis a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone." -Rod Serling, from The Twilight Zone.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. Itis a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone." -Rod Serling, from The Twilight

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a detective, like Encyclopedia Brown. Being a researcher is a way I've achieved that dream ... without the danger.

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

Femella can talk to creatures living and nonliving. She communes with the wee folk and the elfin. She knows the secrets of the untamed places. She believes, and because she believes, she can see.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

From then on Dirmit wrapped herself up in a quilt made of words. She slept on a bed of words and sat on a chair of words. Atiye became thousands of words whos days were numbered. NuÄŸber sat waiting for words. Zekiye wept words. Seyit smiled with his gleaming white teeth made of false words. Mahmut pressed his tongue against his teeth and whistled words. Halit banged words on the wall.

Rüyalar insandan insana dola??rm??.

What I love most about being a writer is the opportunity to "play Goddess" by creating happy endings for people I care about (my characters) and being able to work in my robe!

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing the dishes and mopping the floor. It would be like what Keats said about gazing through a magic casement into faery lands forlorn.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Sometimes I think she's got hats in the belfry