Quotes About Imagination

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand. Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland.

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Reading brings the world into your heart

The sun crouched behind leaves, but the trees had long since walked away. The meaning that surfaces comes to me aslant and I go to meet it, stepping out of my body word for word, until I am everything at once: the perfume of the world in which I go under, a skindiver remembering air

I prove a theorem and the house expands: the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling, the ceiling floats away with a sigh. As the walls clear themselves of everything but transparency, the scent of carnations leaves with them. I am out in the open and above the windows have hinged into butterflies, sunlight glinting where they've intersected. They are going to some point true and unproven

You have nothing to fear in life, not you, not anyone, because every bad thing you think can happen will- but not always in the form you imagine

what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill her all over again. How do they know dead people don't open their eyes and see? they don't know nothing about being dead.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself well, that's not going to happen

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

You seemed so far away, Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, Matilda said. It was wonderful.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.

We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please now and then Come and see us again, The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. All you do is to look At a page in this book Because that's where we always will be. No book ever ends When it's full of your friends The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

There aren't many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,' Matilda said. 'Do you think that all children's books ought to have funny bits in them?' Miss Honey asked. 'I do,' Matilda said. 'Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!