Quotes About Imagination

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.

There is a joy...in creating surprising insight into a character. The characters in my books become, for me, good friends, extended family members, or the brothers and sisters I never had. Books affect lives, especially children's lives, because children have a genuine belief in the truth of stories, the ultimate gift for the writer. It's a shared gift—from writer to reader and back again.

Dogs speak words, but only poets and children Hear.

Outlines are silly. Once you write the outline, there's no reason to write the story. You write to participate . . . to find out what is going to happen!

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

You were given the amazing ability to create universes out of twenty six letters and you're going to the mall? Are you nuts?

Patricia Morrisroe

He was hungry for the warmth of another human being, and I was hungry for his warmth. And in different ways, we were both hungry for our mothers, he for the pleasant memories that were either true or a trick of his imagination, I for the memories that were best forgotten but ultimately forgiven. We were all flawed. I'd never met anyone who made me understand and accept that better than Beethoven.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.

Yes, after every book is finished I decide it is the last one, and then I get an idea in my head and it germinates and before I know it I've started typing and we are off again.

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

You can see a lot of the world from a curb.

ALWAYS KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE

A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come.

They always do the same thing - come in, ask for a meal, hide, and then run off with a harp or a bag full of money the minute I fall asleep,' Dobbilan said. 'And they're always named Jack. Always. We've lived in this castle for twenty years, and every three months, regular as clockwork, one of those boys shows up, and there's never been a Tom, Dick, or Harry among 'em. Just Jacks. The English have no imagination.

Wars are lost by thinking the impossible won't happen.

I had to imagine this was the dream of every good person - to find the world in need of the thing you love doing.

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

Es posible cultivar sueños del Norte y sueños de Sur, de Occidente y de Oriente. Lo inevitable, al parecer, es no querer estar donde se está.