Quotes About Imagination

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

I did not have to believe. I only had to wonder.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.