Quotes About Imagination

The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages Pt.1, 41

Escribir es algo más que eso, es urdir, tejer, zurcir palabras, no importa si es una receta médica o una pieza de ficción. La diferencia es que la ficción consume cuerpo y alma.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

George Adams, in his translation Occult Science—an Outline has rendered it as "mental image," "mental picture," "thought picture" or "idea" according to the context. Michael Wilson in his revision of The Philosophy of Freedom has preferred to keep to "mental picture.

But in the end, magic is magic, and one does not explain it so easily. That is why it is magic. To the child it is natural, but as for the grown man it loses its naturalness-- so as old men we see a different reality. And when we dream it is usually for a lost childhood, or trying to change someone, and that is not good. So, in the end, I accept reality-

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Rudyard Kipling

THE JUNGLE BOOK

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye That you and I will fare.

Anything by Kipling

You are making a mountain out of a molehill,' said Angela. Olivia was suddenly inspired to answer, 'A molehill can be a mountain to a sparrow.

Inu-Yasha: Is it my imagination, or have you been a little prickly lately? Sango: It's your imagination! GLARE KA-BOOM ROARRRR KRAKLE KRAKLE

He can't quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man's deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work.

But I understood Bear Otto's desire to become a noble man, a man like Billy Ansel, and I respected that, naturally. I just wished the boy had more ways of imagining the thing than by becoming a good soldier. But that's boys, I guess.

Before you lose your children, you can talk about it-as a possibility, I mean [...] But when the thing that you only imagined actually happens, you quickly discover that you can barely speak of it. Your story is jumbled and mumbled, out of sync and unfocused. At least that's how it has been for me.

Sometimes I think that this whole thing, this whole business of a world that keeps waking itself up and bothering to go on every day, is necessary only as a manifestation of the intolerable. The intolerable is like H.G. Wells's invisible man, it has to put on clothes in order to be seen. So it dresses itself up in a world. Possibly it looks in a mirror but my imagination doesn't go that far.

What is all this talk of elephants and seals?' asked Frog. 'It's nonsense', said the father, 'and yet it's not the child's fault. Our motor is in me. He fills the empty space inside himself with foolish dreams that cannot possibly come true'.

People ask me how I got from St Eustace to Riddley Walker and all I can say is that it's a matter of being friends with your head. Things come into the mind and wait to hook up with other things; there are places that can heighten your responses, and if you let your head go its own way it might, with luck, make interesting connections. On March 14th, 1974 I got lucky.

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.