Quotes About Imagination

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

History is filled with fictional people.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.