Quotes About Imagination

Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Isn't it a pity we can't have two husbands? One to look at and one to talk to.

The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn't enough imagination.

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.

I didn't really remember that the sea was so blue and the roads so red and the wood nooks so wild and fairy haunted. Yes, the fairies still abide here. I vow I could find scores of them under the violets in Rainbow Valley.

When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep," she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. "What nice dreams they must have!

All that supported her through the boredom of her days was the hope of going on a dream spree at night.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

And you know one can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

There is such a place as fairyland—but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way.

Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

it's delightful when your imaginatios come true, isn't it?

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to the mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would not behave properly. Diana could not understand this. 'Make them do as you want them to,' she said. 'I can't,' mourned Anne. 'Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

It's better to know than to imagine, said Felicity. Oh, no, it isn't, said the Story Girl quickly. When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream about things there's nothing to hold you down.

Wouldn't it be lovely, Miss Shirley, if some one could just wave a wand and make everybody beautiful? she said wistfully. Just fancy my feelings, Miss Shirley, if I suddenly fould myself beautiful! But then....with a sigh...if we were all beauties who would do the work? Anne of Windy Poplars

But Cecily's maiden feet were never to leave the golden road.

But you like to cry over stories? Oh, yes, in the middle of them. But I like everything to come right at last. I must have one pathetic scene in it, said Anne thoughtfully. I might let ROBERT RAY be injured in an accident and have a death scene. No, you mustn't kill BOBBY off, declared Diana, laughing. He belongs to me and I want him to live and flourish. Kill somebody else if you have to. For

I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

Several pages omitted. Anne's pen being evidently neither sharp, stub nor rusty.)

After all, it is fairy tales the world wants. Real life is all the real life we want. Give us something better in books.

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.