Quotes About Imagination

Su horizonte se iba ensanchando más y más, pero no ese horizonte sombrío y lleno de terrores en el que se arrastraba antes de su sueño, sino un horizonte azul, transparente y vasto, con todo lo que el mar tiene de tintas mágicas, con todo lo que el sol tiene de luz, y todo lo que la brisa tiene de perfumes.

Crear personajes que matan a los de los historiadores es privilegio de los novelistas, El motivo es que los historiadores evocan a simples fantasmas, mientras que los novelistas crean a personas de carne y hueso.

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

Democracy shuts the past against the poet, but opens the future before him.

With a heart of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. With a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney, Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end — Methinks it is no journey. —TOM·A·BEDLAM

Every child in the world imagines that its phantasy world is unique to itself. Psychiatry knows that the joys and terrors of private phantasies are a common heritage shared by all mankind. Fears, guilts, terrors, and shames could be interchanged, from one man to the next, and none would notice the difference.

Every child in the world imagines that its phantasy world is unique to itself. Psychiatry knows that the joys and terrors of private phantasies are a common heritage shared by all mankind. Our fears, guilts, terrors and shames could be interchanged, from one man to the next, and none would notice the difference. The therapy department at Combined Hospital had recorded thousands of emotional tapes and boiled them down to one all-inclusive all-terrifying performance in Nightmare Theatre.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él.

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake

I don't want to appear disloyal to television, but I think reading will be good for you.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

To read is to ……….indulge yourself in mental masturbation.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.

That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.