Quotes About Imagination

By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true.

You can't rush your muse. They don't punch time clocks.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

They whisper: no little man from Customs and Immigration stands at the doors of memory or imagination demanding to see your passport. No arts bureaucrat or ComLit satrap can stamp OzLit, CanLit, FemLit, MigrantLit, or Displaced Person on your visa.

I have a very vivid imagination.

Please excuse my little sister. She's got quite an imagination. Annie, you're just jealous because I come up with great stories and you're so boring.

What would be the purpose of having an imagination and not using it?

Julia Cameron's book The Artist's

She says getting lost in a book is a magic trick, which means that I'm a wizard.

Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits for a long time and watches other children going down the slide, whose legs quiver just from imagining how it will feel to stand at the top of that silver swoop into the unknown?

picture flash into my mind. I could just see Aunt

Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination

Were my imagination greater I would grant stories to the souls lost to history. Were I able to hear with my bones I wold know the underside of their colossal silence.

imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. no planets in view. no spacecraft. no distant stars. no source of light. imagine the latent terror, the quiet of space, the strange sensation of floating, the unspeakable dark between wealth of stars.

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

In dreams and in love, there are no imposibilities

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.