And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo’s anger at being found, or...

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?”[Interview in The Independent,...

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

I didn’t know the value of creation until I did it. Once I tasted imagination, I knew that I was trapped. I knew that I could never look back. At this point in my life,...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We...

They all learned how to swim.

Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow

Books allow one to jump into another person’s imagination while also exploring their own!

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller’s life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller’s most precious gift...

I want something new. I want something I’ve never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.

Whatever man imagines is possible

You seemed so far away,” Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.”Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings,” Matilda said. “It was wonderful.

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

WRITER’S NIGHTMARE””I felt a grip on my arm that shook my body, forcefully pulling me toward a tunnel of darkness. The threat of consciousness stole my steady breath. For a moment I believed myself to...

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built...

I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact.

Hating skin color is contempt for God’s divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent...

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of...

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason...

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Nobody is a loser: Either he is a winner or a learner.

MISUNDERSTANDING” arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live...

God created us in His image, and He gave us an imagination with His imprint to create things for His glory!

…[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don’t look at your feet to see if you are...

Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another woman. Maybe you will always be incapable of giving that kind of love....

Being ill when you are a child or growing up is such an enchanted interlude! The outside world, the world of free time in the yard or the garden or on the street, is only...

Tanto è il potere che ha sulla mia carne un’illusione, un’immagine della mia mente, che quando dormo delle false visioni acquistano su di me una forza di suggestione quale da sveglio non hanno neppure quelle...

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets.”Pass through,” she said when Deborah reached her. “We saw you coming.” The wicket gate became a...

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he’d come from, and the Freedom Tower he’d been thinking of: taken together, didn’t they contain the two words that said it all about this...

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

« Tant pour l’auteur que pour le lecteur, les lettres de l’alphabet sont un mot de passe fantastique. Elles permettent l’accès à un monde magique, imaginaire et réel à la fois; ce même monde qui...

Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can...

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.

I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My...

I don’t think we’ll see consumers voting with their pocketbooks. If a book captures someone’s imagination, consumers aren’t going to decide not to buy it because it’s a memoir.

We can never forget the beautiful places we have been.