Quotes About Imagination

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road.

This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

The morning sky is a thought of the stars.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.