Quotes About Imagination

Normal, nice people don't become writers.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us

Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.

I'm a writer, I said. I like long stories.

because for me, Harry Potter is a Taco Bell 7-Layer Burrito.

How nice it would be, I thought, if someone reading the narrative of my African trip felt the same, that it was the next best thing to being there

I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom.

Reading about a far-off place can be a satisfaction in itself, and you might be thankful you're reading about the bad trip without the dust in your nose and the sun burning your head, not having to endure the unrewarding nuisance and delay of the road. But reading can also be a powerful stimulus to travel.

Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists.

Fiction give life to places in expressive ways that no history book can begin to suggest.

Since there was no longer a horizon towards which to rush, they would invent fake ones - substitute horizons.

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

You and this creation are incredible whether you understand that or not. You are wonderful beyond imagination. Just because you make horrendous choices does not mean you deserve less respect for what you inherently are--the pinnacle of my creation and the center of my affection. -God in The Shack

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, 'No, I'm not interested.' I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: 'the book is so much better than the film.

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Never stop dreaming.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.