Quotes About Imagination

We are dealing, she continues, with a mind, as Williams put it, like a bed all made up.

Give me a kiss to build a dream on, and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss. Kisses for Mr. Castle - The Hersey Kiss Story

A todo o momento vejo coisas que gostaria que visses, gostaria que estivesses aqui para as veres com os teus próprios olhos. Procuro ver coisas para ti, e guarda-las na minha memória, e tenho a fantasia de que se me concentrar mesmo muito, posso fazê-las chegar a ti, para que tu as vejas nos teus sonhos. Como se a vida pudesse ser assim.

Sapevi che l'infanzia è l'unico periodo della vita in cui la pazzia non è soltanto tollerata, ma prevista?

Viaggiare è utile, fa lavorare l'immaginazione. Tutto il resto non è che delusioni e fatiche. Il nostro viaggio è interamente immaginario. Ecco la sua forza. Va dalla vita alla morte.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an' she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain't!

Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing and no drugs are needed.

A man often creates an image of a girl in his mind but when it comes right down to it that's the only place the girl exists.

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

A man who starts imagining that others think good because he does is simply out of his mind. I've helped bury a few who did think that way... nice, peaceful men who wanted no trouble and made none. When feeding time comes around there's nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

It has often been said that we have but one life to live; that is nonsense. If one reads fiction he or she can live a thousand lives, in many parts of the world or in outer space.

Keep an open mind," he told me, "for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.

If one has a book, Mr. Boone, One is never alone. They will talk to you when you want to listen, and when you tire of what they are saying, you just close the book. It will be waiting for you when you come back to it.

The Dutchman was hard Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he was stone. His brain was eroded granite where the few ideas he had carved deep their ruts of opinion. There was no way for another idea to seep in, no place for imagination, no place for dreams, none for compassion or mercy or even fear.

It is not necessary to travel in order to write good stories; it is only necessary to see, to understand, to reveal.

It is through wonder that we come to know.

Whatever the book, a reader reads.

In his study there was an atlas, and he could open it to maps of any land on earth. He could put a finger on Afghanistan, or point out where the Mitanni had lived, or to the site of Babylon, and even to Three Dragon Pass. All that was real. What he did not wish to discover was that between any two numbered pages, 357 and 358 for instance, there were an infinite number of worlds of which he knew nothing.

When there are no new ideas things can remain the same

Still, a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.