Quotes About Imagination

One doesnt write about anything. One just writes.

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

Ali sada brzam. Pri?e imaju po?etak, trebale bi ?ak imati i sredinu, ali nikad nisam siguran imaju li pri?e kao što je ova doista i kraj; barem ga ne?e biti dok se god osje?am ovako zbog žene koju nisam Vidio, niti dodirnuo, niti govorio s njom ve? tisu?u godina.

The man uttering these words had a face like the Golem of Prague and a barrel-shaped body that belonged on a beer cart. He wore a short leather coat and a cap with a peak that grew straight out of his forehead. He had ears like an Indian elephant, a mustache like a toilet brush, and more chins than the Shanghai telephone directory

And I am sick for want of sleep; So sick, that I can half-believe The soundless river pouring from the cave Is neither strong nor deep; Only an image fancied in conceit.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.

Oh, yes, let's bless the imagination. It gives us the myths we live by. Let's bless the visionary power of the human— the only animal that's got it—, bless the exact image of your father dead and mine dead, bless the images that stalk the corners of our sight and will not let go.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

Qué libres somos cuando soñamos! Las barreras del tiempo, las limitaciones del espacio, las leyes de la lógica, las represiones de la conciencia... todo esto desaparece

He had always loved to draw and paint, begging to be bought pencils, paint boxes, and paper rather than toys, spending hours wrapped up in worlds of his own creation.

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

They're only stories," he would say, "What do stories matter?" But he wasn't stupid. He knew as well as Myrddin that in the end stories are all that matter.

Outside, Melliphant's ear flattened itself against the wood of the door like a pale slug.

These are new worlds, Zen. We don't have to be what we were any more. We can be anything that we want. We can be humans together. - Nova

He cut through the Twenty-First Century gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal-headed gods of lost America.

Han log blekt, som om han egentligen aldrig sett något le men hade läst en bok om hur man gjorde.