Quotes About Imagination

The difference between Gloria Knudson and Sherri was obvious; Gloria wanted to die for strictly imaginary reasons. Sherri would literally die whether she wanted to or not. Gloria had the option to cease playing her malignant death-game any time she psychologically wished, but Sherri did not.

The danger from the imaginative mind cannot be overestimated.

it woke him up and allowed his dreams, his nocturnal desires and random wishes, to condense into a semblance of rationality.

I'm not in the novel, I am the novel

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.

Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?

You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?" That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.

And then what? said her daemon sleepily. Build what? The Republic of Heaven, said Lyra.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.

Thou shalt not might' reach the head but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. Also: We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them.

But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else. A little earlier I said that stories were about life; perhaps they're made of life.