Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with,...

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

As night falls silently all around,She carefully turns the last page.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn’t matter without a motivation to move.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I...

He who lacks imagination lives but half a life. He has his experiences, he has his facts, he has his learning. But do any of these really live unless touched by the magic of the...

Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel...

I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren’t many of them left these days but they’re still very dangerous! They’re...

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by...

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the...

I always believe it’s better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror…

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time — without the desire to reach...

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the...

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a novel I’m not going to hand walk you through each scene....

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.

He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a...

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms).

It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea...

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

your brain is wider than the sky

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

I’m productive. I make things like directions. Mostly I just make things up.

It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of life—with all the ‘ills that flesh is heir to,’ and with all the...

Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what’s right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else’s, to give ourselves permission...

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities.

I dwell on endless possibilities.

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice… or terrify, all depending upon how we...

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one’s fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip...

The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life...

Leaves lift trees.

Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it’s a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I’ve even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant...