Quotes About Imagination

He [Kafka] did not have for his private and interior processes that disregard which distinguishes insignificant writers from writers of imagination. A person who thinks that he is empowered to separate his inner world from the outer one has no inner world from which something might be separable.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Even torture that is only verbal reinforce the power of the torturer: The prisoner's imagination leads him to dread the next round of interrogations. And when it happens, the feeling of inferiority becomes more acute; it bores into the brain, and the cultural and psychological defenses that surround the brain disintegrate and vanish. The ego is dissolved.

Forgetfulness was for him the death not only of knowledge but also of imagination.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

His most influential song, "Matchbox Blues," popularized an image that had first appeared in one of Rainey's lyrics and would be recycled by everyone from Billie Holiday to Sam Cooke, Carl Perkins, and the Beatles: "I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes / I ain't got so many matches, but I've got so far to go.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle anyone faces in the effort to understand death is that it's impossible for the unconscious mind to imagine an end to its own life.

Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...

If you see a sunset and try to describe it to someone in normal words, all you can say is, 'Boy, I saw a great sunset last night.' But if you are a poet, you give it to someone to feel for themselves. Like you make a little seed of what you saw, they swallow it, and it blooms again inside their own hearts.

There's always hope when a kid—or an adult, for that matter—likes to read.

things that suggest themselves in sleep almost always work out.

She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. So

Negro ideas. But they were just ideas, free-floating and of no color at all.

If there's one thing Lucille hates, it's how science has to rain on whimsy's parade:

Sometimes Suralee and I walked up to the cemetery and lay on the graves. We liked to pretend we were letting dead people speak through us. "I was a hardworking man with a talent for whittling," Suralee might say from her

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

without the stars there to remind us, whatever would we reach for?" Her

When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.