Quotes About Imagination

If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north!

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Only you would think of Sholom Aleichem to make the people forget for a little while.

If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet.

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories.

Dreams are like doors. They're like portals to another reality, and once they're open, you better watch out.

Music is like outer space, Benny. No need for flying to some other place. Everything is so beautiful right here.

Where do you think poems come from? Everything speaks, young schoolboy! But it is only poets and prophets, saints and philosophers who hef ze ears to hear." "They hear voices?" "Of course! Socrates! And Joan of Arc! Rilke, Milton, Blake . . . !

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars. —Walter Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels

Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.

I'm a novelist," Ruth said. "I can't help it. My narrative preferences are all I've got.

You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.

We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too.

The world is creative, endlessly so, and its generative nature is part of who you are.

I don't know how to explain it, except that this one is like playing origami with time.

Ruth had always been fascinated by the meandering currents of his mind

Pencils have stories inside them, and they're safe as long as you don't stick the point in your ear.

You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination

Am I crazy? she asked. I feel like I am sometimes. Maybe, he said, rubbing her forehead. But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.