Quotes About Imagination

It's your story, sweetheart. Not just your story to pass on. Your story to make up as well. Over time, stories change; they shift; they become something new but with elements of the original and elements of what's to come.

That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did.

This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real...Made up is the most powerful real there is.

Story is the best magic there is.

We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

what his father had been up to all these years, not entertaining his children but perfecting his world. If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what's the point of stories? They want to help little boys go to sleep. They want to help stubborn mamas fall in love with dads. They want to teach people things and make them laugh and cry.

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn't even imagine.

I was trapped in reality, and when the visionaries told me what was possible, I could not hear them.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Whether you are at play in the fields of the Lord or standing next to home plate squinting at the popping pitcher, that sudden, immediate knowing can also help you envision the outcome.

Finding your own metaphor for intuition is one of the best ways to give it form, an essential step in developing your intuitive thinking.

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head. (A Monstrous Regiment of Women)

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

Most of us walk through our daily lives as if we were asleep. We regard not what is before our eyes. We see not how we construct fantasies of our own and others' intentions without having the smallest knowledge of what we, or they, are truly about. We are all imaginists, storytellers if you will, and the pity is that none of us recognizes his sorry state.

But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don't have that with a movie. It's all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn't there at all.