Quotes About Imagination

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

I looked at her from the corner of my eye. Some people are hard to imagine as children.

Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.

These questions do not call for the discovery of data; they call for the contemplation of possibility.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Jule was a poet—poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence.

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

ceiling was painted with colorful

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different "realities".

He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a whiff of ancient, buried cities.

Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.

What do you want?" Debbie whispered. And a voice whispered back, "Where are my eyes?" Debbie let out a yelp and began shouting, "How should we know? We didn't take your eyes! What do you think you're doing anyway, going around scaring people? You rotten, mean, whatever-you-are!

Anything could be hiding down here!" "Don't think like that. You'll just scare yourself." "I'm already scared!" "Well, don't scare me then!

I wonder what's in the boxes," Debbie said. "There's no telling what might be inside. All sorts of weird and creepy stuff, I bet." "I'm going to stuff you in one of them if you don't quit that!" Jeff said.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to you, the perfect flower to plant in that particular spot -- you are playing your invisible instrument.

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.

A reader lives 1000 lives before he dies.

A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.

you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

Explicar las cosas tal y como han sucedido es lo más aburrido del mundo. Debería de estar prohibido. Yo invento las historias por pura cortesía.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.