3,418 Quotes About Imagination

Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.