Quotes About Imagination

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.

Burning Man was a mash-up of Star Wars and Apocalypse Now and Disneyland and the Las Vegas Strip.

Does imagination or joy come with limits?

Osaan jo itse lukea / siis kirjoja on oltava. - Myssy-Kasperi matkustaa (Kasper Mütze darf verreisen)

She thinks in wild gardens, and his thoughts are espaliered into an introduction with a thesis, then supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. She

Quite a few inventions do conform to this commonsense view of necessity as invention's mother.

I wished I could imagine my life five years later, without me in it.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream , I must be dafter than I look.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration . One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Books - Snell smiled - are a kind of magic.

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

This is Fiction, and the truth is whatever you make it. You can interpret the situation in any way you want, and all of the scenarios could be real -- and what's more, depending on how you act now, any one of them could become real.

After all, color in itself has no color — it's simply a construction of the mind: a sensation, like the Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly and the smell of honeysuckle.

Well, each interpretation of an event, setting or character is unique to each of those who read it because they clothe the author's description with the memory of their own experiences. Every character they read is actually a complex amalgam of people they've met, read or seen before - far more real than it can ever be just from the text on the page. Because every reader's experiences are different, each book is unique for each reader.