Quotes about Imagination
I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
- Octavia Spencer
We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
- Lydia Millet
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.
- DH Lawrence
I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.
- Todd Haynes
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
- Elizabeth George
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality—or what's currently possible—that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem.
- Lisa Nichols
I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.
- Lisa Wingate
The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences.
- Lisa Wingate
There is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.
- Lisa Wingate
She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.
- Lisa Wingate
Now we haven't got anything, and when you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hands on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.
- Lisa Wingate