Quotes About Imagination

The problem with pianos," I began, "is that there aren't enough to go around. Lots of people in the BookWorld play them, they frequently appear in the narrative, and they're often used as plot devices. Yet for an unfathomable reason that no one can fully explain, there are only fifteen to cover the entire BookWorld.

O brave new world, that has such stories in't!

That 'gleeful darting of the house martins' stuff sounds suspiciously like the work of Jade-under-Lime's resident verse mercenary, Gerald Henna-Rose.

There were no characters or events written in, which was a shame—considering the work he did on the world itself, this might have been a bestseller.

saw a vision of the world and all the options there could be!

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

Jasper Fforde

You can lose yourself in a book, but you find yourself in Poetry

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly highbrow, painfully ambiguous, and potentially unreadable.

No, but by that reasoning,' she said slowly, 'anyone who I've never met in the flesh might actually be me.

Quark, said the Quarkbeast.

fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.

Que la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

Es mentira, lo repito, que las novelas sirvan sólo para pasar el rato, para matar el tiempo; al contrario: sirven, de entrada, para hacer vivir el tiempo, para volverlo más intenso y menos trivial, pero sobre todo sirven para cambiar la forma de percepción del mundo del lector; es decir: sirven para cambiar el mundo. La novela necesita ser nueva para decir cosas nuevas; necesita cambiar para cambiarnos: para hacernos como nunca hemos sido.

Since nothing annoys a writer who doesn't write as much as being asked what he's writing

porque los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede...un escritor no escribe nunca acerca de lo que conoce, sino precisamente de lo que ignora.

Para escribir novelas no hace falta imaginación—dijo Bolaño—. Sólo memoria. Las novelas se escriben combinando recuerdos.

He llegado a la conclusión de que la realidad mata y la ficción salva.

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction

Nunca he entendido por qué tengo que leer sobre cosas que no han pasado cuando puedo leer sobre cosas que pasan de verdad. La poesía es eso, lo que pasa de verdad.

los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;

What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matters are the possibilities and ideas that the novel's imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with, a plot that we recall far more vividly than real events and to which we pay far more attention.

Es curioso cómo el pensamiento incurre en lo inverosímil, cómo se lo permite momentáneamente, cómo fantasea o se hace supersticioso para descansar un rato o encontrar alivio, cómo es capaz de negar los hechos y hacer que retroceda el tiempo, aunque sea un instante. Cómo se parece al sueño.