Quotes About Imagination

My job is not to try to give readers what they want, but to try to make readers want what I give.

In the streets of Un Lun Dun: a group of a girl, a half ghost, a talking book, a piece of rubbish, and two living words was unusual but not very.

Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.

Era como volver a ser niña, aunque no lo fuera. No hay nada comparable a ser niño. Ser niño es solo ser. Después, cuando lo pensamos, lo convertimos en juventud.

I do not dream, der Grimnebulin. I am a calculating machine that has calculated how to think. I do not dream.

Be a dilettante, a sciolist, a swindler … So long as you return me to the sky, Grimnebulin.

The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare.

I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind.

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There'll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Limitations are but boundaries in our minds

Logic takes you from A to B, but imagination takes you everywhere.

But you no longer heard the song. You had gone away, my boy, into your tale. Did you know that you would never turn into a fish, that you would never reach Issyk-Kul, or see the white ship, or say to it: "Hello, white ship, it's I"? You swam away.

My theory of the uses of fiction is that benificent fiction calls into full life our total range of imaginative faculties and gives us a heightened sense of our personal, social and human reality.

The life of the imagination is a vital element of our total nature. If we starve it or pollute it the quality of our life is depressed or soiled.

I don't think that elegant Miss Nigeria will have the imagination or the conscience to explore the possibilities of that encounter. She will dodge the rude beggar and speed away in her expensive car to a sterile assignation with her bloated Mr. Hoverhead Capital.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

There is no story that is not true.

If you don't like my story,write your own

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.