Quotes About Imagination

As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? "I loved you from that moment on," I say. "I loved you from that moment on," you agree.

You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.

We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.

maura: i am isaac, will. me: don't be stupid. he's a guy. maura: no he's not. he's a profile. i made him up. me: yeah, right. maura: i did. no. no no no no no no no no no no no no no. me: what? no please no what no no please no fuck no NO. maura: isaac doesn't exist. he's never existed.

I get lost in ifs. They are always there if if if if and I should only be able to tune in to them if I'm on the right frequency. But that's the thing about me: The frequencies don't divide.

That's not how I'd planned it to be. How did you plan it to be? I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious. I planned it to be a million different things, he replies. And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.

Reading is not life. Reading is creating LIFE in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm...

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid, and I discovered that letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been

If you close your eyes, you can conjure a world.

You see, Dash. I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head.

Fill your head with the right pictures of me. Fill your head with the ones you'd hang on the wall.

Picture me however you want to picture me. Because odds are that'll be more true than any of the bodies you see me in.

The only birdcall I know is the Road Runner's BEEP BEEP.)

We thought there was a wall around our story. But what if there were windows?

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

Because, at heart, when I tell you I love books, what I am telling you is that I am a reader. Boil off all my pretensions, let my attempts at erudition rise away from me like steam, and what would be left would be a reader who is frequently amazed and educated by what words can do on a page.

True or not, every story has something it wants you to remember. True or not, every story has something it wants you to believe.

Just listen to the music and paint. Follow the sound. Don't think about rules. Don't worry about getting it perfect. Just let the song carry you." "But what about instructions?" "There are no other instructions.

doodle, v.: I have more fun when it's freedom

Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head.

I wake up the next morning in Beyoncé's body.

I can't imagine it. It doesn't feel like a believable future. Which feels like a cop-out. Because who wants to end up with a future that was always believable?

There was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced

As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for?