Quotes About Imagination

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

What was the matter with her? She'd already decided she didn't want to make love with him, so why did she keep conjuring up erotic scenes from old sheikh movies? It must be the wine.

His mother had become like an ocean to the boy, vast and unknowable, with faraway shorelines he could never see, could not even imagine from where he stood but that he nevertheless sensed were vivid and real.

We evoke the world we perceive.

Annie colors me in, makes me real.

I love to escape to wild places – forests, mountains rivers or the sea. If that's not possible, I flee into books; vicarious travel is rejuvenating

Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from memory unexpectedly.

Midler Memories – Barbra Streisand Imagine – John

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Touch magic. Pass it on.

1. Write every day 2. Write what interests you. 3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.) 4. Write with honest emotion 5. Be careful of being facile 6. Be wary of preaching 7. Be prepared for serendipity Finally I would remind you of something that Churchill told a group of school boys: "Never give up. Never give up. Never, never, never give up.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

I like norby though time and space because he's not all smart and the storys verry interesting

Only those who can see the invisible can achieve the impossible

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.

Things weren't real to you. They were just raw material for you to reshape to tell a story you liked better. You could never just listen to a boy play guitar, you'd have to turn it into a poem, make it all about you.