Quotes About Imagination

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wake, and I am cast over the cliff and hang there by two fingers that are danced and trampled on by the giant unreality.

People do not cry because it is the end. They cry because the end does not correspond with their imagination of it. Their first choice is always their own imagining; they refuse to be deterred by warnings. They say I choose this because although the price is high the thing itself is more precious, durable and beautiful. The light of imagined events is always so arranged that the customers do not see the flaws in what they have chosen to buy with their dreams.

we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words'...

At first her prose may seem a luxuriant unpruned Eden. But soon the reader sees the careful gardening, the astute nurture of what nature provides. Frame's inner geography is complex, her psyche contains elaborate structures. She had the artist's ability to make strange associations and imaginative leaps;

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we work to weave a new cloth. If the landscape, the characters, and the creatures here call up the old tales told the beside the fire, when stories went from mouth to ear instead of page to eye then I have woven well and the dreamer continues to dream.

The real dragon haunted my head and heart.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even our little corner of it.

Janet Tashjian

Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.

If you don't believe it's elves, that's your problem. I know it's elves.

You didn't have an effective role model for loving relationships. You have had to make it all up. What you did know is that you didn't want to be like your parents, but you didn't know how to filter the destructive actions from the good actions. So you created a fantasy about how ideal relationships work from a fanciful blend of what you imagined, saw at a distance or observed on TV.

Book Time When you find yourself hungry again And there's nothing good to eat-- This is book time. Pull out a book-- Sink your teeth into the think of it.

When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.