Quotes About Imagination

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream

The objective of the scenario approach is not to decide which scenario is right…. There is no 'right' answer.

The Illusion Model

We live in the world we made up.

I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

At home i let myself in and stopped, as if there was nothing for me to do and nowhere for me to go in the face of the pictures in my head.

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

I believe you will discover the horizons of my imaginings far wider than you would suspect, Lord Chaos. You address omnipotence. Tread carefully.

Write visually or die!

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child.

Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation

More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension.

The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they're reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about, Riding with the wind.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.

There is a wonderful way to forsee the future: create it.

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone Where we don't have to ask how it feels, because we feel it for ourselves." 

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.