Quotes About Imagination

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like I'm actually there.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.

You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them. We all have to draw the line somewhere.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.