Quotes About Imagination

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

Sticks and stones may break my bones', as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it.

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming lie.

But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

If you were to be stranded on a desert island, what three items would you take? I gave this frivolous answer: A cat, a hat and a piece of string.

If wishes were horses, beggers would ride

Ho provato una pena improvvisa per mia figlia, che si immagina amici invisibili per popolare lo spazio che la circonda. Egoista pensare che una madre possa riempire completamente quello spazio. Egoista e cieca.

Porque um contador de histórias não morre nunca, mantém-se sempre vivo nas suas histórias enquanto houver álguem para as ouvir.

She always had that look about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Ho sognato di essere vecchio. E tu, tu mi eri accanto. Per sempre giovane, in mano una tazza di stelle.

I dreamt that I was old. And you – you were beside me. Forever young – in your hand, a cup of stars.

Like all other acts of creation, magic is just a state of mind

Writers exist to question, to challenge, sometimes even to ridicule – the status quo. For a government to imprison a writer for doing this is to attack, not only freedom of speech, but freedom of the imagination. It is a backward, oppressive and ultimately futile gesture that can only lead to greater and more damaging social unrest. I condemn it entirely, and hope that Ahmet Altan is freed as soon as possible.

Don't you underestimate Dream,' she said. 'Dream is a river that flows both ways, from Order to Chaos and back again. Dream is the wellspring of creation; even Death is no match for it. Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost for ever – that's the Auld Man telling us that what's destroyed can be rebuilt – aye, even castles in the clouds!

Prazos largos são fáceis de subscrever; a imaginação os faz infinitos.

Talvez a imaginação lhe mostrou, ao longe, o famoso olho da opinião, a fitá-lo sarcasticamente, com um ar de pulha; talvez uma boca invisível lhe repetiu ao ouvido as chufas que ele escutara ou dissera outrora.

From where I sat, Peter and Wendy were the two loneliest figures in the world. But Peter was somehow the lonelier of the two.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires. ~Brian Fitzgerald

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books