3,418 Quotes About Imagination

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

The faery lords are immortal. Those who have songs ballads and stories written about them never die. Belief worship imagination we were born of the dreams and fears of mortals and if we are remembered even in some small way we will always exist.

Imagining tends to give people inconvenient ideas, and those with power don't like to be inconvenienced.

How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.