Quotes About Imagination

Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.

My only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

The best writers always make poetry, whether it comes out prose or verse.

He transforms every bottle of ink into a scrolling trail of metaphors.

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains — God composes, why shouldn't we?

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I may be writing in my dreams.

There are living days and there are writing days. But you can never have the writing without the living. And if you've got writer's block you'd better go have yourself a day of living to fix it, rather than beating on an idling brain.

You should write and read all day...

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

"And when once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen." "But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any other way you can." "To be sure... I have seen a litherary gentleman in a sponging house do crack things on the wall, with a bit of burnt stick..."

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Kids don't remember their best day of television.

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this seven-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

...the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS...

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

For the INFJ, all of reality is surreal.

What if when you die, they ask "How was heaven?"

Distance is inspiration's best hearting.

The stars, like many other things, are only romantic from a distance.

nose in books, head in clouds

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.