Quotes About Imagination

Impossible stories, stories with No Entry signs on them, change our lives, and our minds, as often as the authorized versions, the stories we are expected to trust, upon which we are asked, or told, to build our judgements, and our lives.

We, for our own part, simply call ourselves we. We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.

What is the use of stories that arent even true?

Then she found him. - And maybe he'd invented her, too, a little bit, invented someone worth rushing out of one's old life to love. - Nothing so remarkable in that. Happens often enough; and the two inventors go on, rubbing the rough edges off one another, adjusting their inventions, moulding imagination to actuality, learning how to be together; or not. It works out or it doesn't.

On this day Bisnaga moves out of the realm of the fantastic into that of the historical, and the great river of its story flows into the ocean of stories which is the history of the world.

People tend to focus on the magic more than the realism. But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.

Fictions could be as powerful as histories, revealing the new people to themselves, allowing them to understand their own natures and the natures of those around them, and making them real.

It felt as if a thing that had been impossible had become possible, a thing that had been unthinkable had become thinkable, and Luka did not want to give that terrifying thing a name.

since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

But a man may dream, and in his dreams be other than he is.

And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead but alive.

Mie ar trebui s? îmi fie ruÈ™ine, îl inform? el pe un porumbel cocoÈ›at pe marginea ferestrei. Stau aici, f?când ceea ce critic, cu gândurile Dumnezeu È™tie unde, tr?ind prea mult în imaginaÈ›ie.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return

If one had never had the good fortune of meeting Borges, then meeting his library was the next best thing

Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen Bedürfnissen. Die Realität eines Vaters ist eine Last, die nur wenige Söhne zu tragen vermögen.

Verhalen zijn niet waar, maar doordat ze onwaar zijn kunnen ze waarheden voelbaar en kenbaar maken die de waarheid niet kan vertellen.

Apa gunanya dongeng-dongeng itu? Hidup bukanlah sebuah buku cerita atau toko lelucon (hal.18)

Ellos hasta le contaban sus sueños, aunque muy pocos soñaban más de una vez al mes, porque eran muy pobres para permitirse esos lujos.

We are creatures of air, Our roots in dreams And clouds, reborn In flight.

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him, to prove he's managed it. Playing God again, you could say. Or you could come down a few notches, and think of Tinkerbell; fairies don't exist if children don't clap their hands. Or you might simply say: it's just like being a man. Not only the need to be believed in, but to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

said, think of life as a novel, let's say a novel of four hundred pages, and then imagine how many pages in the book your story has already covered.

imagined world behind our eyelids can drip its magic into the world we see when we open our eyes.

Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic. ITALO CALVINO

We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.