Quotes About Imagination

To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

Writing is a bit like being a god

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

We are all God's animated cartoons.

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God.

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

I don't believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

God finds himself by creating.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

God is creativity, not a Creator.

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.

God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.