Quotes About Imagination

Anne Frank wasn't a star pupil. She was a likeable child. Sometimes I'd bump into her in the mornings on her way to school. Then she'd sometimes tell me stories that she'd made up together with her father. They were always really funny stories. She told me a lot about her father, but not much about her mother and sister. I also knew that she wanted to be a writer. Maybe she would have been…

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

I get so excited over sunsets and rainbows etc, when you see them it's like you can shut out the real world and envelop yourself in a beauty that almost makes it feel like fantasy.

Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

The man who has no imagination,has no wing

The man with no imagination has no wings.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Anything whatsoever may become the subject of a novel, provided only that it happens in this mundane life and not in some fairyland beyond our human ken.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Anlatmasam inanmazlar o?ul, masal derler; masala inanmazlar, masal? yaln?zca dinlerler, sanki hakikati bilirmi? gibi, sanki hakikatin s?rr?na ermi? gibi, masala inanmayan gerçe?e inan?r m??

iyi sanatin, iyi siirin bir yardimi da buydu insana. sizi sahip olmadiginiz zamanlara tasirdi; yalniz gecmise degil gelecege de.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

Descriptions of dreams have a dubious place in storytelling. For these are dreams which have been imagined--'dreamed up', to be slotted in. A story can be made up. How can a dream be made up? By not rising of its own free will from the unconscious it sets a note of falsity, merely illustrating something 'dream-like', which may be why dream descriptions within stories seen curiously meaningless. To avoid glazing over, best then to turn the page quickly.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

To the jumpers overhearing the conversation it was obvious—Troop had come down with another case of dragon fever. The Don Quixote of smokejumping was once again engaged in mortal combat with this, his latest windmill.