Quotes About Imagination

Imagining something is better than remembering something

Imagining the stories you want to write, and waiting to write them, is part of the writing process—like thinking about the characters you want to create, but not creating them.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not.

They were William Blake's words, set to song

His exposure to storytelling, through Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, had ill prepared him for characters who came from and traveled nowhere -- or for stories that made no sense.

Women readers kept fiction alive—here was another one.

That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make the make-believe matter to him more than real life mattered to him; that's when he learned how to paint a picture that was not real and never would be real, but in order to be believed at all—even on a sunny Indian summer day—it had to be better made and seem more real than real; it had to sound at least possible.

It's not like writing a novel. It's easy to know the future when I'm making up the story.

The day women stop reading—that's the day the novel dies!" the

What wouldn't you believe when you were four, and your mom was the manager of your so-called memories?

Imaginer les choses vaut mieux que se les rappeler », avait écrit Garp.

WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WHO'S GOT SUCH A WORKED-OUT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD BORE YOU? WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED OUT A WAY TO SEE THE WORLD? THAT'S WHAT MAKES WRITERS INTERESTING!

Robertson Davies

What young writer is attracted to a sunny disposition?

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

I will clamber through the clouds and exist.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry