Thomas Traherne Quotes

An empty canvas is full.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

There's so many things that we could do.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Books come from within.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.