Quotes About Imagination

Loren Eiseley, who was the subject of one of my favorite term papers, wrote, If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water, but I have always known that if there is magic in this world, it is contained in books. I need magic.

I hold Huckleberry Finn real tight against my chest and start across the yard. Now we can leave this place behind anytime we want. All we gotta do is join up with Huckleberry Finn. There's room on his raft for all five of us, I'll bet. Maybe we'll find the Arcadia out there somewhere. Even though I have to head back to Mrs. Murphy's house, it feels like a whole new place. Now it's got a river in it. That

Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand.

Stories provide a rare chance to temporarily suspend being in your own body, in your own life, and to slip into the very existence of another person.

think. The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences.

If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water, but I have always known that if there is magic in this world, it is contained in books.

I]f there is magic in this world, it is contained in books.

T]here is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

I drink in the sight, stand mesmerized, drenched in leather and paper and gold edges and ink and words. I'm carried away. Lost.

If there is magic in the world, it is contained in books.

My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon.

Now that I'm twelve, I don't believe in the rougarou and the buggerman and Mad Captain Jack of the river pirates.

Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from one that does.

I fall quiet in my seat as we circle round and round that miniature city of the future. I wonder, Father, in that future city is there a tiny colored girl who no longer keeps her eyes down?

Books made me believe that smart girls who didn't necessarily fit in with the popular crowd could be the ones to solve mysteries, rescue people in distress, ferret out international criminals, fly spaceships to distant planets, take up arms and fight battles.

Stories are a little like mind places. You can do whatever you want with them. I want my stories to have happy endings, where nobody hurts anybody. There's enough hard stuff in the real world.

She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

eu sempre soube que se há magia neste mundo, ela está nos livros.

Beneath that, she'd added: For Avery, Because you are the one to dream new dreams and blaze new trails. May the dragonflies take you to places beyond your imaginings.

Now we haven't got anything, and when you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hands on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.

My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon. The room takes life only in my imaginings. It is large most days when I conjure it. The walls are white and clean,

but I have always known that if there is magic in this world, it is contained in books.

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.