Quotes About Imagination

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it.

poetry is always dependent on realism, that you have to be a realist or you can't be a poet. Mrs.

I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.

Every time Mr. Guizac smiled, Europe stretched out in Mrs. Shortley's imagination, mysterious and evil, the devil's experiment station.

Any discipline can help your writing: logic, mathematics, theology, and of course and particularly drawing. Anything that helps you to see, anything that makes you look.

Only art could make fiction beautiful; only reality could sustain such intense art

Usually by the time she had fallen asleep all the classes of people were moiling and roiling around in her head, and she would dream they were all crammed in together in a box car, being ridden off to be put in a gas oven.

He was four or five.

It is natural that I should not imagine this. If we could accurately map heaven some of our up-&-coming scientists would begin drawing blueprints for its improvement, and the bourgeois would sell guides 10¢ the copy to all over 65.

Anyone who has survived childhood, has enough material to write for the last of her life.

Anyone who has survived childhood, has enough material to write for the rest of her life.

E allora sarabande senza fine si srotolavano nella sua mente: come una baiadera ondeggiava di sogno in sogno , di malinconia in malinconia

Let us intoxicate ourselves with ink , since we lack the nectar of the gods

Zato on i napusti flautu, ushi?ena ose?anja, maštanja - jer svaki buržuj je, u jeku svoje mladosti, makar jedan dan, makar jedan minut, verovao da je sposoban za ogromne strasti, za uzvišene pothvate. Najobi?niji raskalašnik je snevao o sultanijama; svaki beležnik nosi u sebi ostatke nekog pesnika.

The world's religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the Mediterranean world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!

I played everything, but the games that kept me up and night and tickled my fancy were the larger role-playing games like 'Ultima.'

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

I take fancy dress very seriously. I mean incredibly seriously.

I fancy cartoons; don't even get me started on 'Aladdin.'