Quotes About Imagination

E é verdade que a mentira exige capacidade de fabulação e de improvisação, e inventiva, e memória férrea, e arquitecturas complexas, todos a praticam mas são poucos os diplomados.) Ou

É curioso como o pensamento mergulha no inverosímil, como se permite fazê-lo momentaneamente, como imagina ou se torna supersticioso para descansar um pouco ou encontrar alívio, como é capaz de negar os factos e fazer o tempo retroceder, nem que seja um instante. Como se parece com o sonho.

Y sí, yo lo echaba enormemente de menos y me imaginaba que él a mí también. Pero lo del otro pertenece siempre a ese terreno, al de la imaginación. Uno nunca sabe a ciencia cierta, ni siquiera sabe si las declaraciones más encendidas son verdad o interpretación o convención, son sentidas o lo que el otro cree que le toca sentir y está dispuesto a decir.

pánico viaja con facilidad en la ficción, o en lo que uno vive como tal.

el pánico viaja con facilidad en la ficción, o en lo que uno vive como tal.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Wherever you want to go, understanding – imagining yourself into the other person's story – has got to be your first step. Before you can figure out how to move forward, you need to understand where you are. The

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

If you want to experience prosperity at a miraculous level, you must leave behind your old ways of thinking and develop a new way of imagining what is possible for you to experience in your life.

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy...

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see

E' caratteristico degli animi indeboliti vedere tutte le cose attraverso un velo: l'anima si crea da sè i suoi orizzonti, ed è lei che vi crea un cielo tempestoso

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

Langley would never complete his newspaper project. I knew that and I'm sure he knew it as well. It was a crazy foolish hand-rubbing scheme that kept his mind in the mood he liked to be in.

Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader---not the fact it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.