Quotes About Imagination

Fairy tales are more then true, not because they tell us that Dragons exist. But because they tell us Dragons can be beaten.

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I make movies I want to see.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

Without defenses, people have no way of finding meaning in their experiences, lose their capacity to remember, and have difficulty imagining reasonable futures. One

Guy was crazy tall, lean, and scruffy. With just his sandals and a richly colored pair of baggies on, he left little to the imagination. Needless to say,

One of benefit of fiction: it puts your mind off your reality when your reality is off-putting.

Somente no mundo real do céu, descobri um uso para o faz de conta. Um benefício da ficção: leva sua mente para fora da realidade, quando a sua realidade é perturbadora.

Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

I read this article about how you can have anything going on in your head, as long as it doesn't manifest itself. Like a reflection.' I waited for my sister to expand on that, but she remained quiet. 'LIke a reflection that's different from what's doing the reflecting,' I suggested.

With a freedom unavailable to me as a historian, my imagination was feeding off history that I had written.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Great thinking comes from a great mind

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

Sempre fui um autor correndo atrás da metáfora, das mais desvairadas metáforas. O adjetivo é minha tara estilística.