Quotes About Imagination

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.

I am always, endlessly, hoping to be surprised." "Then I wish it for you.

We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

If his mother had lived it might have been different, but the farm in Asoli where Garin of Lower Corte had taken his three sons had been a dour, womanless place—acceptable perhaps for the twins, who had each other, and for the kind of man Garin had slowly become amid the almost featureless spaces of the flatlands, but no source of nurture or warm memories for a small, quick, imaginative youngest child, whose own gifts, whatever they might turn out to be, were not those of the land.

Perhaps as often as we dream of things we wish might come to be, we dream of what we wish had been otherwise. We are carried forward through time, but our minds take us back.

He sometimes imagined them all, men and women, children, everyone in the world, sailing down the Sky River in the hugeness of the dark, surrounded by all the stars. Some tried to steer the ship. He had tried. But only the gods could do that, in the end.

Here the world is all the world may be

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction." {Guy Gavriel Kay}

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. After

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.' He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

And remembering…Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." ? Gwendolyn Brooks

It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates. And Mabbie was all of seven. And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar. And Mabbie thought life was heaven.