Quotes About Imagination

What we think expands and becomes reality

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

Everybody must have a story. For those who don't, we need to invent one.

we are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.

Die Revolution wirkte auf mich und meine Altersgenossen gerade umgekehrt wie der Krieg: der Krieg hatte unser wirkliches Leben bis zur Langweiligkeit unverändert gelassen, dafür aber unsere Phantasie reichen und unerschöpflichen Stoff gegeben. Die Revolution brachte viel Neues in die tägliche Wirklichkeit, und das Neue war bunt und aufregend genug, aber sie ließ die Phantasie unbeschädigt.

All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.

A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said -- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.

A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old movies, he said - when you see this old parchment map just… getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just… fwoom

Losing maturity in one's fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that's not always a bad thing.

One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

It's not Sci-Fi, we insist, It's SF. Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

Brain out, sponge in' fiction.

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For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

To write good religious science fiction, or indeed good religious fiction of any kind, is a challenge but one that it would be worthwhile trying to meet. It seems a pity the field has been apparently abandoned to pernicious rubbish like 'The Da Vinci Code', though this seems already, mercifully, to have faded away. In this, as in other areas, we could do with another C. S. Lewis to re-state the principles of Christianity in terms to stir the imagination.

What would have to be true for the option under consideration to work out fantastically?

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

Man who is without the arts is little above the beasts of the field.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

Imaginary friends." "You know they're not real," Mina said. "I know, I know." Annabelle put a finger to her lips, shhh, and added in a stage whisper. "But they don't." Mina had laughed, and then stopped laughing because it was clear that Annabelle didn't get her own joke, and she wasn't about to start laughing at her sister. Not then. Not ever.

I see all things in this world as more beautiful than I, and I spin the details of their atoms in every paragraph and brushstroke.