Quotes About Imagination

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

No wonder fairies run away from pain. They like to be entertained, and it's awfully boring.

A veces me siento como si los libros fueran lo único que hace que valga la pena vivir

what's real within the story is real within the story

Fiction's nice. Fiction lets you select and simplify.

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.

For that is to be my purpose here, you see, to teach rhetoric to you children: I, who was never a teacher but who liked to converse with my friends and seek out the nature of things." "They have their own imagination of who you are, but you are not that," Kebes said. "Now that's true," Sokrates said. "And perhaps what I shall teach is not what they expect me to teach.

Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.

Having a world unfold in one's head is the fundamental SF experience. It's a lot of what I read for. Delany has a long passage about how your brain expands while reading the sentence "The red sun is high, the blue low"—how it fills in doubled purple shadows on the planet of a binary star. I think it goes beyond that, beyond the physical into the delight of reading about people who come from other societies and have different expectations.

if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.

We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?

did an exercise at the end of every day, if I could keep awake long enough, when I tried to imagine the inner significance of everyone who had spoken to me that day. Before

If I'm stuck in bed it's not unusual for me to read half a dozen books in a day. I know I'm not going to live forever, I know there are more books than I can ever read. But I know that in my head, the same way I know the speed of light is a limit. In my heart I know reading is forever and FTL is just around the corner.

Do?ru, bu dünyada gerçekten de kötü ?eyler var; ama ayn? zamanda harika kitaplar da var.

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up. It's easier to research a historical period than your own life, and it's much easier to deal with things that have a little less emotional weight and where you have a little more detachment. It's terrible advice!

Todas as mulheres eram bonitas. Todo anjo do céu devia de ser mulher.

Mal que em minha vida aprontei, foi numa certa meninice em sonhos – tudo corre e chega tão ligeiro –; será que se há lume de responsabilidades? Se sonha; já se fez...

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. — João Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia (Terceiras Estórias) Nova Fronteira; 8 edition (2009). Originally published January 1st 1976.

Agora, nunca ter querido dar uma escapulidinha de vez em quando, nunca ter fantasiado uma trepada fora é mentira. Mentira que muito raramente pode ser sincera, mas, mesmo nestes casos, não deixa de ser mentira.

Henry James escreveu não sei onde que ler um romance é olhar pelo buraco da fechadura.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress.

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child.