Quotes about Imagination

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.

Consider earth, our home. Let your eyes savor the brilliant hues and delicate shadings of a summer sunset. Tunnel your toes into wet sand, stand still, and feel the dependable foam and spray of an ocean tide. Visit a butterfly garden and study the abstract designs: 10,000 variations, more imaginative than those of any abstract painter, all compressed into tiny swatches of flying fabric. Belief in a loving Creator is easy among these good things.

We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!

Why Read? "Read to refill the wells of inspiration

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?