Quotes About Imagination

He guessed he had better face up to it and admit, watching the shabby rowboat approach the bank, that she was just too darn close to that picture he had been carting around in his head, of a girl he had never met, of a girl made up of bits and pieces of other girls known wisely and not too well.

A gaggle of giggles?" Meyer said, trying that one on me. My turn. "How about a prance of pussycats?" "Not bad at all. Hmmm. A scramble of scrumptious?

Ghost Riders in the Sky" meets Vince Guaraldi!

words are but pictures of our thoughts

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

It's all in your mind" is almost insulting, implying there's something strange or weak about you or that the symptoms are in your imagination. This is most unfortunate, since the symptoms are very real, the result of a very physical process.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.

You will not think clearly about your life until you think mythically. Until you see with the eyes of your heart.

Reading for pleasure

the ability to hope and dream.

What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.

The reason we love The Chronicles of Narnia or Star Wars or The Matrix or The Lord of the Rings is that they are telling us something about our lives that we never, ever get on the evening news. Or from most pulpits. This is our most desperate hour. Without this burning in our hearts, we lose the meaning of our days.

Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.