Quotes About Imagination

The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.

Let us say, the present is where we live, while the past is where we dream.

In fact, it wasn't Cagney so much as Richard Widmark that he secretly imagined himself as, especially in the part of  Harry Fabian in Night and the City, which he had seen four times and

I hope I'm a fiction without real hope.

Brez pravega upanja upam, da sem fikcija.

Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done.

he felt that a treasure-house of new fiction lay vaguely under his hand, if he could only find the key to it.

Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

Do you enjoy being a writer, Mrs Avery?" asked Julian. "No, of course not, she said. "It's a hideous profession. Entered into by narcissists who think their pathetic little imaginations will be of interest to people they've never met.

He tells a story, and that's what I like. Does this fella tell a story? He doesn't spend twenty pages describing the colour of the sky?' 'He hasn't so far.' 'Good. Jeffrey Archer never talks about the colour of the sky and I like that in a writer. I'd say Jeffrey Archer has never even looked up at the sky his entire life.' 'Especially now that he's in prison,' I suggested.

The more you read, the more you write, the more the ideas will appear. They'll fall like confetti around your head and your only difficulty will be deciding which ones to catch and which to let fall to the floor.

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one

There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books were like gifts from the gods. (Character of Tristan Sadler in the Absolutist)

When you sit down with a book, you are separating yourself out of your world for a few hours and getting lost in the story.

The sensation that for the world to exist with an object of such beauty in it—and for that object to be unattainable—was the very sweetest kind of pain imaginable.

The only thing I'd tell Maude, if she was here, is that she runs the risk of sounding a little anti-man at times, don't you agree? All the husbands in her novels are stupid, insensitive, faithless individuals with murky pasts, empty heads, micro-penises and questionable morals. But I suppose she had a good imagination, as all writers must, and she was simply making things up.

My six uncles, their dark hair glistening with rose-scented lacquer, sat next to her in ascending order of age and stupidity. >> In her absence they would say that she had always been a floozy and this mattered a great deal to my mother, for she and the person they would fashion from their sordid imaginations would have little in common except for a name.

Do you write yourself?' I asked, and she shook her head. 'No, I wouldn't be able,' she said. 'I don't have the imagination. I'm a reader, pure and simple.

The truth is that I can't remember a moment when I didn't want to be a writer. From childhood, I loved books, I loved stories and I loved writing my own

Wenn ein Mensch nachts in den Himmel schaut, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er Astronom ist - Pavel

Children are natural believers—they know there is something greater than themselves.

Contaminated intelligence seriously lessens one's decision-making process, since the will needs perception, intelligence and imagination in order to make decisions. The human will becomes "disabled.