3,418 Quotes About Imagination

Writing is magic happening on paper

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

An idea is salvation by imagination

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

You never know what you will write until you write it

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly seek to amend our circumference and circumstances, craft and redraft our emotional, social, political, economic, and artistic being.