Quotes About Imagination

The house, shut up like a pocket watch, those tight hearts breathing inside— she could never invent them.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

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

Although I didn't hear the door swing

Be careful not to fall in love with the fantasy you imagined instead of what's standing before you.

We gain knowledge by going through life, education, reading and other learning techniques. And with this knowledge we are now able to imagine.

Ab ke ham bichhde to kabhi khabon me mile Jis tarah sukhe hue phool kitabon me mile

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

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.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y'rself from any system of control is to do something useless.

Stories don't have points. They're lies for keeping the truth in. They're sort of rounded, not pointy at all.

As far as we can tell, it is alone in its ability not only to respond to the stimuli that come in from the world around it but also to literally remake that world in imagination.