Quotes About Imagination

Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

Kate DiCamillo

Franny Block, sitting on the floor behind her desk. "Miss Franny?" I said. "Are you all right?" "A bear," she said. "A bear?" I asked.

Once there was a mermaid.

Botticelli sat

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.

Stories are light

Leo Matienne had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble

He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?

she were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. "Have you lost your

I don't expect you to believe it, but I have another idea—that's two in one day;

She's read many books.

Dortchen was called the wild one because one day, when she was seven years old, she had got lost in the forest. She had wandered off to a far-distant glade where a willow tree trailed its branches in a pool of water. Dortchen crept within the shadowy tent of its branches and found a green palace. She wove herself a crown of willow tendrils and collected pebbles and flowers to be her jewels. At last, worn out, she lay down on a velvet bed of moss and fell asleep.

Stories cannot exist without a storyteller.

Fairy tales are not just for children. They are for all humans, having the power to help us change not only ourselves but, indeed, the whole world.

I want to stay here and think about the secret door.' 'You can think about it on the way. That's the beautiful thing about the secret door. You can open it anywhere, any time.' In later years, the court ladies often laughed behind their fans at the Dauphin, saying cruelly that he could spend a whole day tapping his cane against his foot and staring into space. I knew, though, that he was building castles in the air.

I have been fascinated with fairy tales ever since I was first given a red leather-bound copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales when I was just seven years old. Of all the stories of beauty and peril and adventure within its pages, it was the story of 'Rapunzel' that resonated with me most powerfully.

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.

They're hobgoblins

Jesse and Daisy were just entering the Deep Woods when Jesse noticed a stirring in the ferns growing near the base of the Douglas fir.

name the boy Chickapeckeus.

L'histoire est un roman qui a été, le roman est une histoire qui aurait pu être History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been E & J de Goncourt