Top 100 Quotes About Reading Imagination
#1. Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.
S.A. Tawks
#2. I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#3. You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.
S.A. Tawks
#4. It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.
S.A. Tawks
#5. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.
Diana Jane Heath
#6. When I as reading and writing, I was in that exhilarating place where the life of the imagination is more real than the tiles and soil and rock under my feet.
Deborah Lawrenson
#7. How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
Daniel Dennett
#9. It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.
S.A. Tawks
#10. 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
#11. Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.
Carl Sagan
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
Robert Creeley
#16. Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.
S.A. Tawks
#17. When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.
Nina Jacobson
#18. Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination.
Henry James
#20. Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?
S.A. Tawks
#21. Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.
S.A. Tawks
#22. My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it's difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking.
Sonam Kapoor
#23. Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?
S.A. Tawks
#24. Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#25. Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt
#26. The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell.
S.A. Tawks
#27. 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
#28. If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.
S.A. Tawks
#29. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.
Nora Ephron
#30. Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.
Robert Hass
#31. No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.
S.A. Tawks
#32. Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Michael Tippett
#33. Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.
Kate Cary
#34. I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".
Karl Urban
#35. Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.
S.A. Tawks
#36. Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.
The Atlantic Monthly
#37. 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
#38. Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.
Mark Haddon
#39. The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.
S.A. Tawks
#40. There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
Lemmy Kilmister
#41. Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.
S.A. Tawks
#42. It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. Both reading and writing are experiences
lifelong
in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
Eudora Welty
#44. My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
Barbara Corcoran
#45. Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.
S.A. Tawks
#46. You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.
S.A. Tawks
#47. I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.
S.A. Tawks
#48. Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination ...
Himmilicious
#49. Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.
Sam Wineburg
#50. When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.
Nina Jacobson
#51. You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.
S.A. Tawks
#52. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.
Richard Louv
#53. Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
Zig Ziglar
#54. You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
Walter B. Pitkin
#55. They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.
S.A. Tawks
#56. Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!
Kelley Lovelace
#57. Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.
Meredith Wood
#59. I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that.
Sara Sheridan
#60. Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.
Muna Adnan Naqi
#61. I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.
S.A. Tawks
#62. How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.
S.A. Tawks
#63. This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.
S.A. Tawks
#64. Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.
S.A. Tawks
#65. That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.
Ramona Koval
#66. It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.
S.A. Tawks
#67. One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.
S.A. Tawks
#68. 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
#69. There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.
S.A. Tawks
#70. You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages
John Geddes
#72. 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
#73. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#74. Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.
S.A. Tawks
#75. 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
#76. A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story.
Rachel Lewis
#77. Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.
S.A. Tawks
#78. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]
Lemmy Kilmister
#79. The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.
Robert Aris Willmott
#80. The magic of reading happens when an author's written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently - perhaps dwelt in for years.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.
Dan Sanders
#82. We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.
S.A. Tawks
#83. You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.
Meg Medina
#84. No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.
S.A. Tawks
#86. There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.
S.A. Tawks
#87. When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a politician than a well read working class.
Alan Moore
#88. When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.
S.A. Tawks
#89. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.
Graham Greene
#90. I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.
Steve Berry
#91. Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
Marcel Proust
#92. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
Lemmy Kilmister
#93. Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.
S.A. Tawks
#94. Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.
S.A. Tawks
#96. It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.
S.A. Tawks
#97. 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
#98. Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.
Kellie Elmore
#99. Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky.
Rachel Lewis
#100. 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
