Quotes About Imagination

Leggere non è importante perché aiuta a trovare lavoro. È importante perché fornisce uno spazio per esistere al di là della realtà che ci è data.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices .

There was absolutely nothing wrong with this life, but she felt inside her a craving for other things, other lives, other possibilities. She felt like she was still in the air, not ready to land.

Allez avec confiance dans la direction de vos rêves disait Thoreau. Vivez la vie que vous avez imaginée

Nora wanted to live in a world where cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

Bücher sind Bäume, die träumen.

Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given.

Books might be one way to recover some space. Stories. Fiction. When I was eleven, friendless, struggling to fit in at school, I read The outsiders and Rumble Fish and Tex by S.E. Hinton, and I suddenly had friends again. Her books were friends.. And the stories they inhabited could be places I could hide inside. And feel safe. In a world that can get too much, a world where we are running out of mind space, fictional worlds are essential. They can be an escape from reality.

ROY NEARY: Just close your eyes and hold your breath and everything will turn real pretty. —Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

She imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about her unborn children than her unwritten books.

So, if they believed in themselves—the logic must go—why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely? •

Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.

If one advances confidently,' Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common

After the wine a realisation hit her with total clarity. She wasn't made for this life. Every move had been a mistake, every decision a disaster, every day a retreat from who she'd imagined she'd be. [...] Happy. Loved. Nothing.

Magic can be found everywhere, if you know how to look for it. ... And where there is magic, there was hope.

You see, sometimes, a single child believing in magic - if they believe enough - is enough to restore order to the universe.

Hope is a beautiful thing to find in art or stories or music.

These books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. It is not where we are, but where we want to go, and all that.

If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

Just as person's likes, dislikes, and fears are relevant to creating an interesting character for characters to interact with, changelings can tell a lot about someone by interacting with their dreams. Thus, the Storyteller is advised to jot down a few quick ideas about the nature of a characters dreams.