Quotes About Imagination

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At last her mother looks up from the book and smiles and says, "I read to keep from being sad.

They were stories of things that had never happened and could never happen, but she told them with such quiet verve and conviction that we believed them and wanted to continue believing even after time robbed us of our sense of wonder.

no act of creation was finer or more beautiful than the creation of an intelligent mind.

I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does.

Although it earned him a living, a suspense writer's imagination made him more aware of the constant proximity of death than were most people. Every dog was a potential rabies carrier. Every strange van passing through the neighborhood was driven by a sexual psychopath who would kidnap and murder any child left unattended for more than three seconds. Every can of soup in the pantry was botulism waiting to happen.

The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do.

AN ARTIST IS A MATHEMATICIAN WHO KNOWS THE FORMULAS OF THE SOUL

But it may also mean that the visible can be born from the invisible, that matter can arise from energy, that thought is a form of energy and that thought itself can be concretized into the very object that is imagined.

To create good fiction, you have to like people enough to want to write about the human condition—but close yourself alone in a room for a large part of your life to get the job done right.

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, which he painted in 1781.

You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

because real life was plotted like Tolkien on methamphetamine

the brain produced

MY LIFE BEFORE JACOB'S LADDER, ISLAND LIFE, LITERATURE, and PARANORMAL

In the dream, I suddenly found myself in the night, floating above the house, then gliding over the woods

She considers them to constitute a work of art.

a world of wonder beyond.

have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

On Books: Around her, thousands of times and places, people and worlds, from Mars to Egypt to Yoknapatawpha County, were closed up in the bindings of books like the shine trapped under the tarnished veneer of a brass lamp. She could almost feel them waiting to dazzle with the first turn of a page, come alive with brilliant colors and pungent odors and delicious aromas, with laughter and sobbing and cries and whispers. Books were packaged dreams.

books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

God imagines the world, and the world becomes." Romanovich said, "Well, we know that matter can be transformed to energy, as burning oil produces heat and light—" "As

Sometimes it takes a lot of distance to be able to fold a piece of your life into a work of fiction.

Maybe it's just that before anything came the word, and words are the roots of everything that our senses perceive. Nothing can be imagined, nothing can be visualized in our minds, until we have a word for it. Therefore, when I give myself to the free flow of any words that trip off my tongue without predetermination, I am tapping into the primal creative power at the heart of the cosmos.