Quotes about Imagination

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

All good novelists have bad memories.

A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.

I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.' 2

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

So much of a novelist's writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts.

Everything had seemed possibile. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time for a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind - until one day to you own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.

How can anyone refute another person's personal experience? The answer is, by appealing to the Word of God. The Bible itself teaches that if an experience is not consistent with God's Word, we must reject it, regardless of how impressive the experience may seem (Gal. 1:8). Demons are capable of mimicking authentic spiritual experiences and masquerading as angels of light. Even on its own, the fallen mind is capable of deceiving itself and imagining things.