Books And Imagination Quotes

#1. In college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures - solitude, books and imagination - outside with the whispering pines. I

Helen Keller

#2. Books ... I can't live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book, my imagination, and I am set free. I'm in literature heaven.

Belle Aurora

#3. The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Joshua Foer

#4. I tried to make him a young court-wizard in my mind - he almost looked the part in his fine clothes, pursuing some lovely noblewoman - and there my imagination stumbled. He was a thing of books and alembics to me, library and laboratory.

Naomi Novik

#5. The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them.

Jonathan Auxier

#6. I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

George R R Martin

#7. Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

Sam Weller

#8. Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

George Packer

#9. I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.

Garon Whited

#10. Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

Plato

#11. When it comes to creating compelling fiction, the devil may be in the details, but it is your imagination that ultimately allows your work to spread its wings and take flight. And fly it must. Only by soaring above the clouds of doubt can one truly achieve a suspension of disbelief

Max Hawthorne

#12. We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

Sarah Cross

#13. Write it down and it will come alive.

Efrat Israeli

#14. [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson

#15. My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

David James Duncan

#16. Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

Anthony Browne

#17. Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Sara Sheridan

#18. At the end of the day, your level of success is going to be determined by the power of your imagination, the level of your determination and tenacity.

Clay Clark

#19. Everyone should read at least 10 books in their lifetime - it helps your mind, develops your imagination, and can help you escape your reality.

Megan Wilson

#20. Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn't landed yet

Lynn Payne

#21. It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

S.A. Tawks

#22. Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

Gore Vidal

#23. Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

Paul Kropp

#24. Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

Richard Whately

#25. This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

Malia Ann Haberman

#26. Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

George Eliot

#27. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.

Ettore Scola

#28. And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

S.A. Tawks

#29. I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know.

Jen Naumann

#30. Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

Ian Watson

#31. The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

Mini Grey

#32. All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

Henry Abbey

#33. The path to success involves two parts. Part One is all about imagination and dreaming up a big idea. Part Two is all about having the diligence, the determination, and the tenacity needed to turn those dreams into reality. First comes the inspiration, then comes the perspiration.

Clay Clark

#34. For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

Cynthia Kadohata

#35. Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

Paul Auster

#36. My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

#37. Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Joseph Joubert

#38. The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

Michel Foucault

#39. Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining ...

Kate Forsyth

#40. Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

Carmela Dutra

#41. The fort.
Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in the world of shrinking finally panned out.

Michelle Cuevas

#42. I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

Thomas Kinkade

#43. There's always another story. When you read a book again and let your imagination take over, it can take you to new stories, so it's like a book inside the book!

Kate Westerlund

#44. We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Malia Ann Haberman

#45. I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

G.K. Chesterton

#46. I couldn't admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck 'em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

Christos Tsiolkas

#47. I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are ... seductive. And I like words because they can contain ... fantasies.

James Lusarde

#48. I believe in previous lives and the Muse - and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists.

Steven Pressfield

#49. Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

Mordicai Gerstein

#50. Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

Meredith Wood

#51. I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#52. It's not about the young or the old; it's about anyone who takes something from his or her imagination and makes it real. --Thom Beers, Executive Producer

Meredith Books

#53. I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

James Herbert

#54. When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust; I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

Henry James

#55. The lack of magic is what leads humans to fantasize in the first place. And Alyssa, what a wonderfully powerful force an imagination can be.

A.G. Howard

#56. I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let

Leo Tolstoy

#57. I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Aurora Whittet

#58. In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else's imagination. My life was suspended - I was in neither one place nor the other.

Kate Kerrigan

#59. When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading is not just about reading,you have to use your imagination,make the characters alive and be one of them,feel them ... and presto,you'll never be alone!

Mareez Reyes

#60. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

Siri Hustvedt

#61. I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

Anthony Doerr

#62. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

Anthony Browne

#63. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#64. Gather knowledge ... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs ... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

Nita Leland

#65. When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

S.A. Tawks

#66. Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

John Rhys-Davies

#67. My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#68. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.

Diana Jane Heath

#69. I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#70. It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

Isaac Asimov

#71. Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Brian Jacques

#72. She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. "I'm going to miss you when I wake up," she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.
"Don't wake up," he said.

Marie Rutkoski

#73. Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

Peggy A. Borel

#74. A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Jessica Mitford

#75. To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.

H.L. Stephens

#76. Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.

Sasha Graham

#77. It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

S.A. Tawks

#78. Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.

Jeff Zentner

#79. Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Marcel Proust

#80. His father always talked to him - so Seryozha felt - as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys that exist in books, utterly unlike himself. And Seryozha always tried with his father to act being the story-book boy.

Leo Tolstoy

#81. Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#82. What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

Edmund White

#83. Regarding children's literature, look for interesting content and well-constructed sentences clothed in literary language. The imagination should be warmed and the book should hold the interest of the child. Life's too short to spend time with books that bore us.

Deborah Taylor-Hough

#84. If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Kyo Maclear

#85. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.

Paul Auster

#86. I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

#87. I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

Alice Hoffman

#88. Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

S.A. Tawks

#89. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#90. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Linda Grant

#91. I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds.

Rinsai Rossetti