Quotes About Imagination

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

Our dreams are a second life.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.