There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.
Umberto EcoTags: imagination
Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!
C.K. WebbTags: imagination books writing movies scary ck-webb
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
H.P. LovecraftTags: imagination dreams horror
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
Mary BaloghTags: imagination
When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: wisdom imagination mind brain intellect contradiction
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Marcel ProustTags: imagination women beauty proust
Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.
Virginia WoolfTags: imagination inspirational
One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking.
Edwin Valentine MitchellTags: imagination walking
Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to.
Jude MorganTags: imagination darkness
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
(Interview, The Paris Review)
Tags: imagination writing creativity
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