Quotes About Imagination

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out.

Slowly we wound uphill past fields and thick forest until we reached the eastern edge of the Rift Valley. Far below, as far as I could see, lay the golden plain ringed by blue mountains. It was true, it was there, and more magical than I had ever pictured it.

If I don't like the way something unfolds, I reimagine it the way I'd rather have seen it happen.Memory doesn't dictate truth.

You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps." from Best Friends

With our thoughts, we make the world. —Buddha

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didn't look like the ones on the entertainment feed.

there's the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

Sometimes you have to look into every possibility, even the dumb ones.

It looked very unrealistic and inaccurate, which was exactly what I liked.

It's a good thing I don't bleed like a human because hostile marine fauna was about all this situation needed.

Solving your problems is an interesting exercise in lateral thinking. "So you're bored?

I am not untidy," I objected. "I merely surround myself with a plethora of possibilities.

I often succumb to poetic notions, despite the gripping science.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

The most beautiful life that has been imagined is the life of the knight Don Quixote who created danger where he did not find it. But more beautiful still is the lived life of him who finds danger in all places. All creation stands on the edge of being; all creation is risk. He who does not risk his soul can only ape the creator.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.

Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.