Quotes About Imagination

We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.

The trouble with magical realism for me, as I suggested earlier, is that it is neither realistic nor magical.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

don't give no rabbit's fart what race or type of creature you are; if we'd been invaded by queer, tap-dancing dragons wearing top-hats and breathing cabbage fire, they'd still come here for their centre of command.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something.

Careful is cerebral; fearful is emotional. Careful is fueled by information; fearful is fueled by imagination. Careful calculates risk; fearful avoids risk. Careful wants to achieve success; fearful wants to avoid failure. Careful is concerned about progress; fearful is concerned about protection.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he — for some reason — thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

All these works of the imaginative inventions unfortunately got into chronicles, which were made into books which everybody respected and believed, principally because they were thick, hard to hold, tedious, and old.

Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.

ordered me a sky from a florist

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.

She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.

I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking.