Quotes About Imagination

Is the division into men and women a product of the imagination, like the caste system in India and the racial system in America, or is it a natural division with deep biological roots? And if it is indeed a natural division, are there also biological explanations for the preference given to men over women?

Someday we will become something we haven't even yet imagined.

Dreaming is a language

La poésie est active dans toutes les formes de création. C'est elle qui en fait la beauté, laquelle est un éveil, un cri d'alarme.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Doesn't it look as though a genius is actually a person who has figured out a different way to think?

Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

You are so high in the tree. If you jump you will live a full life while falling. You will get married to a hummingbird and raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancer in mid-air. I will not lie. It will be painful. You are a brave little boy or girl.

Let's not look directly at what is meant to be loved in secret. Let's, for example, imagine the sea is always, constantly, and forever spilling toward us, that our screaming building is something worth escaping. — Zachary Schomburg, from "Building of Unseen Cats," Fjords Vol. 1 . (Black Ocean; 1st edition March 6, 2012)

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling, it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

Death is the only fantasy that becomes real for all humans."

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

The purpose of art, including literature, is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.