Quotes About Imagination

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

God waits for us to create him.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.

Even if there isn't a God, I believe in the one we've created.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

God, I wish you could have been there.

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!