Quotes About Imagination

We can none of us say why this thing, or that thing. The book was done written when the characters were born.

Faith is required to get a vision for things that we don't see yet in our life.

Saturday Night was also founded on the notion that repetition and habit stifle true creativity, true originality.

Humans are strongly discouraged fro comparing their lives with those of other animals. Yet everything I had experienced taught me that metaphor is the fundamental path of imagining, a first line of inquiry into the lives of other creatures that sheds light on our own.

Our body wonderfully combines hormones, blood vessels, nerves, and skin to create attraction and desire. Our soul involves our mind and imagination, our will and our choice, our heart and our emotions. Our spirit gives us true love and creates an ability to become "one flesh" with another (Genesis 2:24).

All people are natural story-tellers. We tell a story every time we tell someone what we did that day or share an opinion of our favorite movie. If you want to be a story-teller, good job, you already are one!

He'd write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He'd have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all.

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like ... ow ... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name -- ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Besides, back to the subject of you being nuts, all writers are nuts, didn't you know that?

I dropped my penny in the well of dreams, Into a deep, dark, distant, delayed splash. The world was everything that thinks and seems When I was twelve years old and dogging off Into a free mind, writing reams and reams— Invisible paper, invisible ink … from "Disenchantments

friends who could write novel after novel as effortlessly as a politician could lie,

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind." —Rod Serling, opening narration, season two (and perhaps the better known version)

vacuuming up countless pages of the genre like a blue whale inhaling krill.

Hard science fiction. Mind-blowing, breathtaking, hard science fiction.

Growing up," he said, "my favorite author was Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short story The Last Answer?" There

exactly the way he hoped to die, which he decided should involve the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders and his heart giving out from exhaustion.

Douglas E. Richards

He half expected to receive a rocket-propelled suppository at any moment, but none came.