Quotes About Imagination

Ivy had been practicing to become a witch for a long time. She was going to be one when she grew up

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

We are all trying to defend ourselves against how we imagine other people are going to judge us.

If our goal is to lose twenty pounds in six months, we can plan how to achieve that by imagining it's six months from now and we've lost the weight. What are the things we did to lose the weight? How did we avoid junk food? How did we increase the amount of exercise we were doing? How did we stick to the regimen?

Felmenni a városba, álmodozni, maszturbálni és várakozni - így is össze lehet foglalni, mibÅ'l áll egy vidéken töltött kamaszkor.

Yo andaba sudorosa de un lado a otro ante su mirada imaginaria por el Boulevard des Italiens, mientras él estaba en cualquier otro lugar, inaccesible.

A vague and immense desire to create was in the air. Everyone claimed to be devoted to an artistic activity, or planned to be. All activities were equal, they agreed, and instead of painting or playing the flute, one could always create oneself through psychoanalysis.

L'interminable lenteur d'un temps qui s'épaississait sans avancer, comme celui des rêves.

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.

Monter en ville, rêver, se faire jouir et attendre, résumé possible d'une adolescente de province)

At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, and all of them die and a result of becoming, or not becoming reality.

L'avenir est trop immense pour qu'elle l'imagine, il arrivera, c'est tout

Ver con la imaginación o volver a ver por medio de la memoria es el patrimonio de la escritura.

At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, and all of them die as a result of becoming, or not becoming reality.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.

Reading literature makes us better people.

Think of the task not in linear terms—tracing a direct line from point A to point B—but rather as a cycle: think, draw, look, rethink, redraw. Likewise, don't envision the mind telling the pencil what to do; instead, allow a conversation to develop between eye and hand,

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.

Your time may be limited, but your imagination is not.

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.