Quotes About Imagination

Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

When I was a Poet Everything was Possible there wasn't Anything that wasn't Poetry

the act of imagining how an ideal self might be is the start of its manifestation.

we create our own reality, even if we don't recognise this.

Whatever is on our mind, we project onto the world outside us.

We paint the world with our thoughts,

Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

They both stared at the microscope as if it might hop off the bench and chase them around the room.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

At some point, I'd like to have an origina l idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but I'll wait and see.

And by the time the train pulls into the station, I find myself actually relieved that Emily's only a figment of my imagination.

There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.

fictional character, this seemed to

Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.

I think reality is overrated.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret.

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

You can do homework from now until doomsday, but you will never win fame and fortune unless you also invent big ideas.

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.