Quotes About Imagination

What if I choose the dream instead?

There is no greater power on this earth than story....

Next I know, I'll be calling myself the queen of Romania and wandering down the lane wearing my bed linens for a cape.

He imagined that one day he'd hear that his parents were gone and feel only a vague sense of loss. How could you mourn something you'd never really had?

Every girl was once a prinsess

There is no greater power on this earth than story. The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 4 sentence 1

As a scientist, Ling had to keep an open and curious mind, to explore all sorts of permutations. It seemed to her that there were endless variations for love, too, if only people would allow their minds to consider them. Ling opened her eyes again. "Why…?" Ling stopped, afraid to say this aloud. "Why can't we be something new?

Dreams are gateways to the other worlds.

Dreams are the shadow self let loose.

You have no idea how much you can come to know about a person when you see inside their dreams

Isn't it enough that this world exists? That we can be everything here that we can't be when we are awake?" Wai-Mae asked. "No," Ling said. "I want to know how it works.

I can sometimes influence a person inside a dream, Henry added. For instance, if someone were having a nightmare, I might say, 'Why don't you dream about clowns instead?' Clowns are your cure for a nightmare? Evie said from the couch, where she lay half-sprawled again, legs crossed, one leg kicking out and back. Never, ever say that to me inside one of my dreams, Henry. Promise me, She shivered. Clowns.

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading.

It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)

Dr. Purchase, the closest likeness to a flesh-and-blood Walter Mitty Logan had ever met

They've continued to think of VR as primarily a game technology. But it's got the potential to be much, much more.

writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

You look like you're about to puke, he observed, pushing his cart forward. With a quick, inner shake she gathered herself and cut him off to take her rightful position as lead cart. I was trying to imagine you as a kid. It was horrifying.

Steven cupped his hands behind his head and gazed up at the ceiling while he imagined how it would be if everything was all right in New Orleans, if he could take Emma to Fairhaven and make a life with her there. He even went so far as to think about the children she might bear him, to picture them playing on the green lawns and sliding in their stocking feet on the slick floor of the ballroom. He

We don't sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We're amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both. Edward Nesbit

I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.