Quotes About Imagination

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

We will be one step down from the Creator, " she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it.

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.