Quotes About Imagination

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.