Quotes About Imagination

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Children don't read to find their identity. They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology. They detest sociology…. They still believe in good, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation and other such obsolete stuff.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

To dwell on the lack thereof is a mental trap the majority of visionaries are taught to do.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

There is no reason why a well thought-out story should resemble real life; life strives with all its might to resemble a well thought-out story.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.

They [sensing types] will not skim in reading, and they hate to have people skim in conversation. Believing that matters inferred are not as reliable as matters explicitly stated, they are annoyed when you leave things to their imagination. (Intuitives are often annoyed—if not actually bored—when you do not.)

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Noi chiamiamo grandi storici solo quelli che non soltanto hanno il pieno controllo della documentazione fattuale ottenuta mediante l'impiego dei migliori metodi critici disponibili, ma possiedono altresì la profonda penetrazione immaginativa che caratterizza i romanzieri di talento. Dopo tutto - lo ricordava molto tempo fa lo storico inglese G.M. Trevelyan - Clio era una musa.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.