Quotes About Imagination

You both live in fantasy worlds of your own imagining, where you're the queen of the world and everyone does exactly as you expect, no matter how much they hate it. There has to be some give and take in marriage, you know.

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

My sons think it's a fireman's pole, but I forgot to cut a hole through the ground into the kitchen.

There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us a story.

There are so few years to just be a child.

Their fantasy men--like Yon-sama--not only wouldn't spend their days barking drink orders from the couch, they might not ever be home at all. And that's okay. For these women the pleasure of a fantasy lover comes not from having him but from pining for him.

Only a superstitious, melodramatic nerd would try to keep from being bored to death by scaring himself to death instead.

selfishness brings with it a surprising power of invention, it tends to create its own ontology.

For her seventh birthday, Mazy Gulliver got a Play Bride set that included a white veil, a plastic bouquet and a rhinestone ring. She immediately organized a wedding celebration under the basketball goal where she married Termy Latham, the boy next door. An argument could be made that the incident was merely the first in a long series of hasty, ill-conceived and unwise decisions about men.

I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that inspired me—many of which I first encountered in stories. I went from wishing I were like a character in books to being a character in my books. I went from reading books to wrestling with them to writing them, all the while still learning from what I read. The

When we read, we are spying on someone else's imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if they betray us, or we them.

For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground, a book of books was the richest journal imaginable; it showed a version of myself I recognized and felt represented me. Over

Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just read every book or even a good chunk of the Truly Important Ones, you would know what you needed to know about real life. And you could be a part of it. Naturally, I got a lot of things wrong.

We all love remembering the satisfaction, the joy, the almost giddy exhilaration of seeing the world of letters, and as a consequence the entire world, open up to us.

There was a shiftiness to kids who secreted themselves in a corner to read God knows what instead of what they should have been doing. Reading when you were supposed to be raking the leaves, reading when you were supposed to be sleeping, reading when you were supposed to be making the bed, not lying in it. I did everything I could to read my way out of doing anything else. It was the one thing I was good at.

Books are how cautious kids get to experience a kind of secondhand rebellion, a safe way to go off the rails.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining--- imagining just is.

FROM BUNDI I wanted to leave immediately for the South – that sunlit place in my imagination, for whose old-world charm and civility I had developed a positive yearning after several months at a stretch in the barbarous North.

The creative hopeless.

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.