Imaginative Journey Quotes

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

You can escape into a character.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.