Quotes About Imagination

dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

Writing is show business for shy people.

Books Can Fuel Your Dreams!

Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.

Kirjailija ei tosin minun mielestäni ole taikuri joka hokkus-pokkuskeinoilla tarjoaa hetken paon ankeasta arjesta, vaan pikemminkin hän on hovimestari joka järjestää lukijalleen tapaamisen todellisuuden kanssa. Mutta katsas on rakennettava mielikuvitusta ja sisäisiä näkyjä noudattaen.

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

Nadine," said my voice. "You know how people daydream about the Bahamas, with the beaches and palm trees? I don't know if they really do, no doubt it's mostly advertising, but you're the island I think about.

And who doesn't long for the door in the air.

Looking back, I have to laugh. You know why Martin Bligh was strenuous? Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

Make of that what you will.

quixotically.

education, had never respected the glowing objective of perfect attendance (a goal set for kids, he said, "by adults with ruined imaginations").

Don't fear occasional ghosts. Every day my mind suggests two or three impossible things.

Waiting for inspiration to write is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

Though little had actually happened to Susannah the car smelled of lovemaking.

Studies show mental rehearsal helps weekend athletes sharpen their golf, their tennis, their running, whatever their favourite activity. Experts agree if you see the pictures, hear the sounds, and feel the movements of your body in your mind before you do the activity, the effect is powerful.

The more you think back on an event, the worse it gets in your memory. The best way to remember something accurately is to write it down before your cynical imagination gets carried away.

literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the "actual world" a "new dimension of depth" (Lewis, Of Other Worlds 29). This makes it possible for literature to strip Christian doctrines of their "stained glass" associations and make them appear in their "real potency" (37), a possibility Lewis himself realized in the Narnia series and the space trilogy.

As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars

That is why we not only learn from literature but enjoy it: it delights as it teaches. And it conveys its kind of truth through the creation of concrete images which incarnate or embody ideas which would otherwise remain abstract and nebulous.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.