Quotes About Imagination

It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not words on the mind.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.

Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority

La vida és alegre o trista, segons com la miris. De vegades penses que no saps viure. O t'imagines que n'hi ha que són feliços i aleshores tot els sembla més bonic: potser un dia o altre et tocarà.

I caught her one day eating a bee. When she realized I was watching, she spit it out, saying the bee had flown into her mouth. But I knew that she ate bees. She would choose the ones that had drunk the most wisteria juice and keep them alive in her mouth for a moment, let them play a little before swallowing.

Kaikessa kirjoittamisessa on tietenkin kaksi puolta: totta kai täytyy olla jotain mistä kirjoittaa, mutta täytyy myös osata kirjoittaa.

Tottumaton kirjoittaja saattaa kuvitella, että ensin mietitään mitä halutaan kirjoittaa, niin että se on valmiina päässä ennen kirjoittamista, mutta oikeastaan ei voi tietää mitä ajattelee ennen kuin alkaa kirjoittaa, sillä kirjoittaessaan ajattelee

My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

Dreams are not only about money as it seems, From outside it may not be visible but it has endless beams, And most funny part of it is that dream never ends, If you reach your dream place then new dreams it amends.

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one's own imagination.

the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage.

A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.

Toda a estória se quer fingir verdade. Mas a palavra é um fumo, leve demais para se prender na vigente realidade. Toda a verdade aspira a ser estória. Os factos sonham ser palavra, perfumes fugindo do mundo.

Ser menino é estar cheio de céu por cima.

Talvez, quem sabe, cumprisse o que sempre fora: sonhador de lembranças, inventor de verdades. Um sonâmbulo passeando entre o fogo. Um sonâmbulo como a terra em que nascera.

O que faz andar a estrada? É o sonho. Enquanto a gente sonhar a estrada permanecerá viva. É para isso que servem os caminhos, para nos fazerem parentes do futuro.

And that is what a writer is—a traveller between identities, a smuggler of souls.

Se permanecesse imóvel por um tempo, aconteceria o inverso daquilo que ela esperava: as letras é que começariam a olhar para ela. E iriam segredar-lhe histórias. Tudo aquilo parecem desenhos, mas dentro das letras estão vozes. Ao lermos não somos o olho; somos o ouvido.