“I told my imagination to discontinue communication with my thoughts.”
“Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.”
“The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled - and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.”
“Imagination thrives on mystery”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!”
“We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I d never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.”
“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.”
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.”
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”