Quotes About Imagination

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.