Quotes About Imagination

But by immersing themselves in their favorite reading topics, they felt far away from their predicament, as if they had escaped.

The best books are like complicated surgery--first you can't get your head out of them, and then you can't get them out of your head.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Truth can be dispensed with when fantasy dominates. p.63

Böcker ska blänka som solar och gnistra som tomtebloss. Medan vi läser böckerna läser böckerna oss. Kan böckerna läsa människor? Det kan de förstås! Hur skulle de annars veta allting om oss?

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will be as one.

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up.

When you're eight years old, nothing is your business.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Your mind is wandering, desperately trying to keep itself amused. It's not crazy, says therapist Cineas; it could just be a way to occupy yourself. We all have an active inner life: we're busy making remarks, silently snorting, and imagining scenarios.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

She [Anna] was doing what she always did when she saw him [Vronsky]—comparing the image of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, and impossible in reality) with him as he was.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.