Quotes About Imagination

He had become simply Edward Bloom: Man. I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.

His cars were his magic carpets.

Nothing in this world compares to writing and being read.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Let me share this whole new world with you.

If you keep on believing the dreams that you wish will come true.

Children just need the time, the space, and the permission to be kids.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Man is what he reads.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

We didn't grow up in a creative family.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird – even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.

Fog is just clouds that have fell down

I really love being human. But some days I really wish I could be a fairy.

I better go to bed now. I have a dream locked up in my heart that I need to let out.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

"I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection."

Measure your success according to fun and creativity.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go!

Summer is always best through a window.

My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend's house when I was in junior high. He was such a good kisser, and we're still close friends!

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.