Quotes About Imagination

A good plot is like a dream.

We don't hold with book-reading, Mr. Wormwood said. You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.

Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy-hum music.

you should be able to make a scene come alive in the reader's mind. Not everybody has this ability. It is a gift, and you either have it or you don't.

Don't worry,' he said. 'So long as the facts are there, I can write the story. But please,' he added, 'let me have plenty of detail. That's what counts in our business, tiny little details, like you had a broken shoelace on your left shoe, or a fly settled on the rim of your glasses at lunch, or the man you were talking to had a broken front tooth...

George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.

If she's a lady, I'm a vernicious knid. (Eddie Albert in Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory)

I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grownup won't listen to me; he won't learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child. I want a good sensible loving child, one to whom I can tell all my most precious candy-making secrets-while I am still alive.

It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

THEY . . . USED . . . TO . . . READ! They'd READ and READ, AND READ and READ, and then proceed To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!

But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It's right here. You've just finished reading it.

This place we're flying over now isn't in the atlas, is it?' the pilot said, grinning. 'You're darn right it isn't in the atlas!' cried the Head of the Air Force. 'We've flown clear off the last page!

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Then they would roll these handfuls of cloud in their fingers until they turned into what looked like large white marbles. Then they would toss the marbles to one side and quickly grab more bits of cloud and start over again.

In the town itself, actually within sight of the house in which Charlie lived, there was an ENORMOUS CHOCOLATE FACTORY! Just imagine that! And it wasn't simply an ordinary enormous chocolate factory, either. It was the largest and most famous in the whole world!

Era così piacevole tener vicino una bevanda calda mentre leggeva e leggeva, nella sua stanzetta silenziosa. I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure.

Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.' A

The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,' the BFG said.

Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.

There's more power and magic in those things in there than in all the rest of the world put together

What sort of a book would you like to read next? she asked.

Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES.