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Quotes About Imagination

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
~ Khaled Hosseini
downpour lashing at her face is becoming heavier and more steady, rippling windows, smearing headlights. Pari has no memory of ever meeting the man, her grandfather, Maman's father, has seen only the one photograph of him reading at his desk, but she doubts that he was the mustache-twirling villain Maman has made him out to be. Pari thinks she sees through this story. She has her own ideas. In her version, he is a man rightfully worried over the well-being of
~ Khaled Hosseini
Prošle sedmice Bibi jo donijela je vijest da Jalilove k?erke Saideh i Naheed trebaju krenuti u Mehrijinu djevoja?ku školu u Heratu. Otad su se misli o u?ionici i u?iteljima kovitlale u Mariaminoj glavi, slike sveski sa linijama, stupci brojeva i olovke što ostavljaju taman, debeo trag. Zamišljala je sebe u u?ionici sa drugim djevoj?icama njenih godina. Žudjela je za tim da stavi linijar na stranicu sveske, i vu?e crte koje izgledaju važno.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Ah, a storyteller," the general said. "Well, people need stories to divert them at difficult times like this.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Regarding Titanic) Sometimes Zalmai would saunter in and watch this game. What did he get to be, he asked. You can be the iceberg, said Aziza.
~ Khaled Hosseini
La sola fuga possibile era allentare le redini della fantasia.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It's like describing music. He cannot bring it to life.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was as though a rainbow had melted into her eyes. Rasheed
~ Khaled Hosseini
There were times when, like a word on the tip of her tongue, Mariam's face eluded her. But now, in this place, it's easy to summon Mariam behind the lids of her eyes.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Tr? con Ä'âu ph?i nh?ng quy?n t?p tô màu. Anh không th? bôi ??y nó b?ng nh?ng màu anh ưa thích
~ Khaled Hosseini
En eso consistía volar cometas; en dejar que tu cabeza volara junto a ella.
~ Khaled Hosseini
children s are not the coloring books where you can fill your favorite colors
~ Khaled Hosseini
Perhaps she wrote that life is really lived through dreams and intuitions, not fate and circumstance.
~ Kiana Davenport
our Lord satisfied the stomach before satisfying the eye, but the imagination acts in the reverse fashion
~ kierkegaard De Soren
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.
~ Kim Addonizio
Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you've already written to generate new material.
~ Kim Addonizio
Robert Frost said, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
~ Kim Addonizio
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
~ Kim Edwards
All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might change.
~ Kim Edwards
Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers...
~ Kim Edwards
Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end,or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
~ Kim Edwards
I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on a sense of mystery. And this boy is not ordinary. He is wild and he has strange and fanciful perceptions. [p. 153]
~ Kim Edwards
Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.
~ Kim Harrison
Have you been sniffing fairy farts?
~ Kim Harrison