Quotes About Imagination

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father."

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

it is not the first language that is all-important, but which language captures the adolescent's imagination when he or she first discovers literature.

I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them.

Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

Fairy tales are more than true–not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.