Quotes About Imagination

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

He must be the only man alive who can eat an apple through a tennis racket.

A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

I dream for a living.

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle-baby.

A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she'd married a millionaire. You're lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime.

Let's have some new cliches.

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.