Quotes About Imagination

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Sometimes there are truths in fiction. In fantasy. Sometimes made-up stories tell us more about who we are than reality.

I see her every night," Teddy says. "She sleeps under my bed so I can hear her singing.

I'll be remembered as the crazy babysitter who drew all over the walls, the one who believed Teddy's imaginary friend was real.

Gerhard Richter,

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

many alexithymic individuals do display a capacity for sophisticated controlled imagining, consciously using imagination for practical means such as how to work out a problem or construct a useful idea or object. This ability suggests that spontaneous imagining is the specific deficit in question.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Marco lives in a fantasy world, one that's more interesting and more fun than reality. That's the definition of being insane, surely?" said my son, Raul "I suppose so," I said. "It's like Don Quixote.

All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.

la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

Everything becomes a story and ends up drifting about in the same sphere, and then it's hard to differentiate between what really happened and what is pure invention. Everything becomes a narrative and sounds fictitious even if it's true.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.

Lo que pasó es lo de menos. Es una novela, y lo que ocurre en ellas da lo mismo y se olvida, una vez terminadas. Lo interesante son las posibilidades e ideas que nos inoculan y traen a través de sus casos imaginarios, se nos quedan con mayor nitidez que los sucesos reales y los tenemos más en cuenta.

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.

What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matter are the possibilities and ideas that the novelist's imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with, a plot that we recall far more vividly than real events and to which we pay far more attention.

Mindegy mi történik a regényekben, mert úgyis elfelejtjük, ha véget érnek. A lehetÅ'ségek és a gondolatok számítanak, amelyekre felnyitják a szemünket, és amikre fiktív történetükkel ráébresztenek; ezek tisztábban maradnak meg bennünk, mint a valós események kapcsán, és jobban megfontoljuk Å'ket.

nincs annál csábítóbb, mint belefeledkezni egy másik valóságba, még ha a képzelet szüleménye is; magunkévá tenni valaki más problémáit, és elmerülni a létezésében, amely – miután nem a miénk – sokkal könnyedebb)

In fact, nothing can be imposed on a writer of fiction, who doesn't need to ask permission to introduce any real person or sequence of events he happens to know about into his fiction; if he decides to, then nothing and no one can prevent him. We aren't trustworthy people and some of us are heartless, though I don't think I am.

Luisa couldn't understand why I hadn't wanted to ask more questions, women feel an unalloyed curiosity about things, their minds are investigative, gossipy and fickle, they never imagine or anticipate the nature of the thing about which they know nothing