Quotes About Imagination

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

Anything is possible. Anything can be.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Dreams don't have an expiration date.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

How does somebody know what they want if they haven't even seen it?

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.