Quotes About Imagination

from the shelf. Ben's stomach churned as he pulled out Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. Kenzie would enjoy them, but had Marianna ever read those books before? Not that Dr. Seuss was literature. What

Hollywood loves aliens.

The space between . . . is the space that lies between the observer and the observed; it is the space of the creative act that brings a poem or painting to life." —F. David Peat, Pathways of Chance

I looked at him curiously. 'I thought you only read non-fiction and Terry Pratchett?' 'I ran out of anything to read in the hospital and it was that or a lot of ditsy novels about cupcakes and fairy-wing repair shops by the beach.' 'I don't think I've come across the fairy-wing repair shop one,' I mused. 'Probably not: I made it up.' 'Maybe you should write it?' I suggested, then reverted back to the subject in hand.

Thought is made in the mouth.

You can even invoke dreams, nourish them, and regulate their quantity. For example, to stimulate dreaming, before you go to sleep tell yourself: "I want to remember my dreams," or address the dream directly, "Dreaming Self, send me a dream," or use whatever phrase feels comfortable to you. If you invoke dreams for three nights in a row, generally you will recall a dream by the fourth night. I repeat my phrase three times just to make

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave .

Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother's surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.

Life has more imagination than we do.

Each novel is a message in a bottle cast into the great ocean of literature from somewhere else (even if it was written and published last week in your home town); and what makes the novel available to its readers is not shared values or beliefs or experiences but the human capacity to conjure new worlds in the imagination. A fully realized novel provides readers with everything they need for their imaginations to go to work.

After imagining and summoning up these embodied aspects of himself, he asked them questions, after which he found they often produced an image, and then the disturbance disappeared.

When working with an outer demon attached to a relationship, it can be helpful to imagine feeding the other person as well as feeding the demon created by our reaction to that person. When I fed my demon of fear of losing my son as part of my divorce, I also fed an imagined form of my husband.

He [Riptide] sighed. "I said, 'What are you doing all the way out here?' and you said, 'Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of your claws but not the others, and I wish your nose was a herrig so I could eat it, and also your wings sound like sharks snoring.'" Tsunami burst out laughing.

Oooh," Peril said, momentarily distracted by the idea of an enchanted piece of cheese.

Great," Glory said. "How about a trail of cow parts, too? And a map of where we're going? Or perhaps we could set this part of the forest on fire, just to make sure everyone knows how to find us. Would you like me to spell out 'DRAGONETS WUZ HERE' in giant rocks?

Scrolls," Jambu said. "Um. Those are . . . ?" Starflight looked as if someone had just asked him whether breathing was really necessary.

You can be the idea dragon and I can be the WHAM BAM SHOVE A PINEAPPLE UP HIS SNOUT dragon!

Dazzling, Grandeur, Exquisite," Glory muttered, adding those to the list of things she'd memorized in the last day. "And the last one? Let me guess — Splendiferous? Astonishing? Too Beautiful for Dragon Eyes to Bear?" "That's Fruit Bat," said Kinkajou.

He felt an almost unbearable longing to press himself against her scales and fall asleep with her star-speckled wings over his.

But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon,

Bumblebee when I named her! I'd like to see you come up with a better name at that age!" "Wordibird," Bumblebee said sleepily from her sling, and Cricket laughed again.

With punching and biting?" Swordtail suggested hopefully. "And maybe some venomous caterpillars?" "I like the way you think," Sundew said. "But they're centipedes, dingbat.

flying and swimming and living like a real SeaWing.