Quotes About Imagination

We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats – including sombreros.

Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present. They're not about the future at all. The future is just the ultimate monster in the closet, the great unknown.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind," as he puts it in the essay on Partisan Review, "we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.

She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The world held in the pages of history felt like the real world, and the present day an illusion she had to suffer through until she could escape back into the pages of a book.

Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex. —SINGLE-MINDED

You know that feeling when you're suddenly startled out of a deep sleep, and you're in that hazy middle world where you're not sure what's real—like maybe you actually could be chasing after an ice cream truck wearing only fishing waders and a canary yellow bridesmaid's dress, or you're just one answer away from winning a year's supply of adult diapers on a Japanese game show? —SINGLE-MINDED

Having used you as their emotional dumping ground, they are prepared to return to school and play the part of the good citizen. Indeed, they may be able to act as a good citizen at school precisely because they are spending some of their time imagining the colorful complaints they will share once their school day has ended.

Will and I are thinking about writing a movie," Ben said. "It's called Theater Closed for Repairs.

Life is the grandest adventure one can go on, isn't it?' said the giant kindly (he seemed to be a very friendly giant). 'What else could a person ask for than just to be alive?' Will knew exactly what else a person could ask for. 'Monsters,' he said. 'And cake.

You want a story? Go buy yourself a magazine.

When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it's like I go back into the dream.

Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

Imagine," she said, her face turning serious for a moment, "imagine if something happened to one of us and there was no Easter egg hunt next year, imagine if everything stopped being perfect—you would wish so hard that you'd taken part today . . .

room. She stood for a while in the middle, imagining herself not in it anymore, imagining herself instead in her sister's

Stories,' she says, 'are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

Poppy's hands fall on to the book. 'Stories', she says, 'are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

But she knows this isn't true. They're more than just people. They're a mood, a feeling, a vibe, an aspiration. They're like a music video or a trailer for a really cool movie. They're a billboard poster for a hip clothing brand.