Quotes About Imagination

her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.

But she would always tell herself, Who needs friends, when you have books.

Who needs friends, when you have books,

Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part of your heart. Myth is the true history. Don't let them tell you that there are no monsters. Don't let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd. Be strong, my darling ones, and believe!

Do you want to know how to write a song? Songwriting is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key - putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Like letting a small child in the same room as, I don't know, a Mongolian psychopath or something, and just sitting back and seeing what happens. Then you send in a clown, say, on a tricycle and again you wait and you watch. And if that doesn't do it, you shoot the clown.

I'd say, be careful what you wish for; certitude is seldom good for creativity.

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed

when I die I'll meet my characters in heaven. And they won't be made at me . . ." Nick Cole Probably the coolest quote from an author I have ever heard!

Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning when everyone's sleeping, I hear trees rustling when no one's around.

It's like there's a mighty reservoir of songs that no one's ever heard up there in heaven and there's a tap in Neil Young's brain that's somehow attached to it. All he has to do is ease his mind into the right gear and something will always come trickling down.

Although the spitting incident was unnerving at the time, it did serve to set Roger's creative wheels spinning, and he developed the outline for a show based around the concept of an audience both physically and mentally separated from their idols. Whether the confrontation in Montreal

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

Psychologist Dr. Terry Orlick has been studying excellence in sports, business, and life for decades. He is world renowned for his motivational and mental approach to peak performance. Orlick has determined that there are seven components of excellence: commitment, focus, confidence/trust/belief, positive imagination, mental readiness, controlling distractions, and constant learning.

Urban man lives only in dreaming.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

The cloud cover was heavy and multilayered, shades of slate blue and silver, pearl and charcoal, like a sketch washed with watercolour.

If you don't sleep, you don't dream.

In my imagination I smiled back at her, then found I was smiling down at her because she was in a wheelchair.

She did not mention her dream of the ammonite, snaking heavy and solid into the bones of her hand.

Just as I thought I was beginning to know this world and understand it, it throws more magic at me." "What's life without magic? Turn your magic into a song, share it with others." "You know I can't sing." "A story, then.

I rubbed glistening liquid onto the armrests and imagined the hands that would touch the wood, perhaps resting there between turning the pages of a book, perhaps stroking the smooth wood, absently at first, then slipping a bit as the owner slept.

Hild wasn't listening. He wondered what paths she walked in her head.