Quotes About Imagination

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.