3,418 Quotes About Imagination

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

We live in the world we made up.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.