Quotes About Imagination

Don't anyone move. . . I think we've driven into a mimefield.

Everyone needs dreams,' she said simply. 'If you don't have them, they can't come true.

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

Les presento al nuevo expósito, Tiger Prawns. Tiger te presento a las hermanas Karamázov. Deirdre y Deirdre. -¿Por qué se llaman igual? -Tenían un padre con muy poca imaginación.

If you look into someone else's dreams, all you ever find are nightmares.

when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life.

Take no heed of her, explained Jones apologetically. She reads a lot of books.

Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Quark!--the Quarkbeast

The Spontaneous Anthropomorphic Event had taken place before I was born, so rabbits talking, wearing summer dresses or driving cars never seemed that unusual to me.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer—perhaps more.

We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.

It is written.

Children are such consummate liars

I don't back out of a long and happy make-believe union just when things start getting rocky

extraordinary; I could almost see the Cambrian Mountains

A Uncorn isn't for page twenty-seven, it's for eternity.

No eran simpleas acumulaciones de palabras dispuestas escrupulosamente sobre un página para ofrecer la impresión de realidad... Cada uno de aquellos volúmenes era realidad. La similitud de esos libros con los ejemplares que había leido en mi hogar no era mayor que la similitud de una fotografía con su sujeto: ¡aquellos libros estaban vivos !

I had sequenced Pickwick at home using nothing more complex than average kitchen utensils and cultivated her in a denucleated goose egg.

Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.

Jasper Fforde

I had learned from my mother's many letters that Mycroft had invented a method for sending pizzas by fax

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