Quotes About Imagination

She ran her hands across the bark, imagining herself at the foot of some planet-traversing colossus who was standing still to allow her up for a visit.

Phillip K. Dick, one of the few classic science fiction writers I've read, explained reality as, 'that which, if you stop believing in it, does not go away.

I am the creator of my own prism of infinite realities. Every one I peel back will lead to another. And I will never really be sure if any of them are real.

But is he awake, or just drunk, dreaming of a voluptuous conquistador maiden polishing his sword?

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.

With my eyes closed and my memories open, I could almost feel his hands and mouth on my skin.

Logan followed my gaze. "I wonder if there'll be stars where I'm going." "If there aren't now, there will be once you show up.

I open my eyes. Yech, boyfriend thoughts, the kind I haven't had since I was a teenager. It's one thing to imagine Shane naked and slathered in olive oil, but another animal entirely to picture us cuddling.

Discovery is the ability to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

We are capable of generating an almost infinite number of narratives about the same event, and it is the interpretation of the event that matters, not just the event itself.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

an author should never conceive of himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom that did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Anytime you don't have a picture in your head, you're in trouble or will be soon.

Write what you know? No. Write what you can imagine. After all, imagining is knowing—a special kind of knowing that can reveal as much or more truth than our real experience.

Your job is to learn to create drama. Once you can do that, you can do anything.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.