Quotes About Imagination

Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

know what it is like to finish a book and find oneself wondering, a day or a week later, what happened to the butcher or who got the diamonds, or whether or not the dowager was ever reconciled with her niece. I

He knows what reading is. How it takes you.

remembered the words of the man in the brown suit, and how they had echoed around the rafters of my rooms under the eaves. Yet the man in the brown suit was a figment of her imagination. I should have expected it. She was a spinner of yarns, wasn't she? A storyteller. A fabulist. A liar. And the plea that had so moved me—Tell me the truth—had been uttered by a man who was not even real. I was at a loss to explain to myself the bitterness of my disappointment.

Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story.

Readers,' continued Miss Winter, 'are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. It must be allowed to decay.

I'm a storyteller." "I am a biographer.

Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?

do you believe in ghosts?

Diane Setterfield

El silencio no es el entorno natural para las historias -me dijo en una ocasión la señorita Winter-. Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

To think a book could have so much paper in it!

for on a summer day winter always seems like something you have dreamt or heard spoken of and not a thing you have lived.

And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.

Behind it a pile of old rags with a hat on top organized itself into a man, albeit a scruffy one, and struggled to its feet.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

Everyone creates what he fears.

Para poder inventarme, antes que nada, debía disociarme.

autobiographical novel. He fancied himself

My job is not to just set down events that happened to me. My job is to create an experience for a reader." —Mary Karr

The writer of nonfiction might be starting with events that really happened, but recreating them is an imaginative feat. Ordering them is an imaginative feat. Making sense of them is an imaginative feat." —Robin Hemley

I was someone who lived in anxiety. I felt anxiety was part of being conscious in the world; it was a prerequisite of a moral and ethical life. I don't mean the anxieties of Capital, I mean the anxieties of an unfinished world, the unfinished projects of the imagination, as Wilson Harris would put it.

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.