The power of imagination is a miracle.

Imagination doesn’t always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.

explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Girl going past clinging to a young man’s arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green in her eyes. Spinal curvature. No chin, mouth like a frog. Young man...

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

Before innovation – or practical creativity – there is insight. You must see the world differently.

That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit...

Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught,’ she says. He raises his eyebrows. ‘That does not surprise me. It is not better. But it is easier. One’s imagination is always more generous....

We live in the world we made up.

Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.

We may see a Creature with forty-nine headsWho lives in the desolate snow,And whenever he catches a cold (which he dreads)He has forty-nine noses to blow.’We may see the venomous Pink-Spotted ScrunchWho can chew up...

I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.

Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered ‘Once upon a time…’ to allure and spellbind an audience.

Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it...

We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have...

Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt...

Just because it’s imaginary, doesn’t mean it’s not real.

The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring...

He’s like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

I bet I’ve noticed features on you that you have yet to distort in your imagination or discover. Remember how much I stared haha I was enamored with the simple things about you, so I...

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

You have to design your own price tag for the world.

You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges...

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

There’s a psychological mechanism, I’ve come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness...

Change starts with imagination

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted...

Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is...

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.

Art is Alchemy.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

You must know where you’re and see what’s ahead of you, by doing that you’ll be able to achieve your dreams and goals. This sort of journey is called the power of sight and the...

Good stories take your imagination to anywhere

I was very lucky that we were able to create something that stimulated the imagination of young people,

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

I make believe like asexuals make love—alone, with cardboard tubes.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people’s places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

Never regret losing time on reading good books

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

He imagines Owens’ body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.