Quotes About Imagination

What can you do when your five senses are not enough?

Writing fiction is like doing a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces turned upside down.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.

Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Renaissance painters saw everything from one perspective, photographically, "realistically," but medieval painters looked at a scene from several different perspectives at once. A medieval picture looked at with this in mind becomes very exciting indeed. It is as if the artist is everywhere at once: the castle is tiny as if seen from afar; the men on its battlements huge as if encountered face to face; this lake is seen from that distance and that tree from this.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

In that moment, I realized how dangerous it was to keep company with the characters from books. They lived books lives of fierce deeds and deep yearning.

I thought of a line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, "As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean.

I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either,

THAT'S WHAT SF IS ALL ABOUT. IF YOU WISH TO YIELD TO REALITY, GO READ PHILIP ROTH; READ THE NEW YORK LITERARY ESTABLISHMENT MAINSTREAM BESTSELLING WRITERS. . . . THIS IS WHY I LOVE SF. I LOVE TO READ IT; I LOVE TO WRITE IT. THE SF WRITER SEES NOT JUST POSSIBILITIES BUT WILD POSSIBILITIES. IT'S NOT JUST, "WHAT IF—." IT'S "MY GOD; WHAT IF—." IN FRENZY AND HYSTERIA. THE MARTIANS ARE ALWAYS COMING.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

There would be no moon maps in Frank Borman's house, however

Isn't it strange how most of us reach an age where we just fold up our imaginations and stuff them in our closets? I think I've learned more about you from these impossible dreams than from anything else you've said.

In the imaginative universe, the opposites unite, creating a magical third, which transcends ordinary consciousness. Fundamentally, Jung's commitment to the processes of transformation and the creation of a new psychic center, which he termed the self, place him in the imaginative world of the alchemist.

Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like non-fiction, so that when your character walks out of the donut shop and turns left into the nunnery, there really is a nunnery next door and not a muffler shop.

When you know how to find a story – when you know what a story looks like and where they hide – you see them everywhere.

Jeffrey S. Young

the story of liberty and its future is not only about the raw assertion of rights but also about grace, aesthetics, beauty, complexity, service to others, community, the gradual emergence of cultural norms, and the spontaneous development of extended orders of commercial and private relationships. Freedom is what gives life to the human imagination and enables the working out of love as it extends from our most benevolent and highest longings.

Your cat ate my unicorn's breakfast.

Hey, do me a favor and grab my butt," Olaf´s head said to Hans.

Break a leg, Gilly!" Kayla appears out of nowhere. "You're not supposed to say that, remember?" she whispers. "It offends the mermaids since they don't have legs.

Lost in the Library