Quotes about Imagination

In her way, her strangeness, her naïveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Imagination is biblical reasoning in its Sunday best, lost in wonder at the creativity of the Creator. Being

Since we were created in the image of God, we become like the God we imagine (image).

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Without this playing with fantasy, no work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Without this playing with fantasy, no work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Carol, if you could be a member of the opposite sex for twenty-four hours, and then pop back and be yourself again, who would you be and what would you do?" My mind started racing like mad. Opposite sex? For twenty-four hours? Who would I be? What would I do? I said a quick little prayer. Please, let me just open my mouth and have whatever comes out make sense. I took a deep breath and what came out was this: "I'd be Osama bin Laden, and I'd kill myself.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.