Quotes About Imagination

Something happened last night that was so strange I almost think I imagined it.

There was a tiny hairline crack in the ceiling she used to stare at while daydreaming.

The English girl scared her more than any other creature in the forest.

Every day is different, every day I'm on an adventure. If I get bored, you can bet that in the story I'm writing, bullets will fly.

The dreamer whispered, Just once let something happen.

How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said. 'I was just guessing.' 'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

Something occurs to me. "Have you ever tried writing something from Astrid's point of view?

Summer estaba en lo cierto, después de todo: sería una increíble Titania. Si lo consigue ella, ¿a mí qué? Podría ser un Duende mejor, y eso podría ser más divertido de todos modos. Parezco una malvada andrógina ahora, con mi cabello corto. Probablemente sería un estupendo Duende, en realidad, ahora que lo pienso. ¿Quién dice que tengo que ser la Reina de las Hadas?

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

Without books, a library was just a quiet room.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.

As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I'd closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home in sunny orbit. Never perfect, but ever spinning, and holding on to her course, despite it all.

She also knew that the story you made up in your mind was rarely the real story.

POW camp, he'd imagined a sweet life in a tidy house, Alice

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.

thinking otherwise is to inhabit them differently, to envision how to recast the resilient impingements and damages to which imperial forms give rise.

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.

I wish you magic, Edward.