Quotes About Imagination

Then quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Trouble was, they didn't have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.

Instead of batting their eyes at idiots, young girls will start taking up stick swords to slay a dragon and save the prince.

Minecraft was dangerous but exciting. He sometimes wished to go there.

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The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.

The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.

But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and once she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.

Kendra Speaks: The Story of a Mermaid Who Should Have Left Well Enough Alone I did not know what an angel was, but if it comforted him to believe me one, I saw no harm.

A girl always pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like one.

Having screwed around the last hour trying to decide whether to write in the style of Isaac Asimov (that version featured Caitlin as a Venusian chick with one eye and three breasts) or Dr. Seuss ("I am Nick/Nick is sick/Nick tells Debbie to…" well, you get the idea)

Every girl pretends she's a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of 'happily ever after.

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.

The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.

When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.

The emperor of China asked his court painter, «What's easy to paint and what's hard to paint?» and the answer was «Dogs are difficult, demons are easy.»

Dogs and horses are difficult; demons and fascinating things are easy". The idea is that painting dogs and horses is difficult because they are so ordinary; demons and grotesque objects, on the other hand, are quite easily depicted.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Our world exists only to hold up this other world, this ideal world. It's the world of our dreams, our desires. It's elaborate, it's heavy, and we carry it around with us everywhere. But we don't mind. The more that's up here, the better. Because up here is where we keep all that's best in us. The more that's up here, the richer our imagination becomes. . . . Products are the materials we use to build our world above the world.

Pablo Picasso said, "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.