Quotes About Imagination

I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

Si existe alguna película que, con elegancia e imaginación, profundice en las violentas y delicadas verdades sobre el corazón humano, este humilde crítico aún no la ha descubierto.

How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?

You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head.

Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right.

Cuando le dije que no sabia pensar me dijo intentalo. Mientras tenia las bendas en los ojos intente pensar. No paso nada. No se en que pensar. Alomejor si se lo pregunto me dira como tengo que pensar aora que tengo que volberme listo. Que piensan las personas que son listas. Seguro que cosas marabillosas. Me gustaria saber cosas marabillosas ya.

If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.

spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

I spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks.

I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now - ... - everything I can get my hands on - feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

Anna Bergman in Private Confessions], unlike her mother... has never been able to tame her fantasies of what life ought to be like, to adapt the role she yearns to enact to the play she finds herself in.

can't imagine when she wanted to evoke some positive, pleasant memory of her past, as if there were no point in trying to use more concrete, more descriptive adjectives

You have to really imagine that a person's quest, in a larger sense, gently reconnects the emotional and physical circuits that were left in abandonment or that never had the opportunity to become developed.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Where are you looking at it from?" "Oh. From above. From outer space." "What are you doing up there?" "I don't know." "Why aren't you down on the surface?

a lifestyle for creatures capable of poetry, philosophy, music, dance, mythology, art, and invention on a wide technological front.

He was a big fish, even then.