“Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive of such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit.”
Source: This is Orson Welles
“It is imagination again which adds the piquant charm of voluptuousness to the tenderness of an amorous heart; which makes tenderness bud in the study of the philosopher and of the dusty pedant, which, in a word, creates scholars as well as orators and poets.”
Source: Man a Machine
“Invention is essentially different from reverie; if some fail to recognize the difference that is because they have not themselves experienced both. Anyone who has will understand me. In my day-dreams I was training myself to be a fool; in mapping and chronicling Animal-Land I was training myself to be a novelist.”
Source: Surprised by Joy, Reflections on the Psalms, The Four Loves, and The Business of Heaven
“Sooner or later, due to the limits of their feeble imagination, men turn sex into a power play”
Source: Apophenia: Myths, Tales and Legends from an Imaginary World
“I dream [a cartoon] into being by imagining how I want it to be. I lead with my imagination and, inevitably, the brush follows.”
“The act of art is metamorphosis.”
Source: Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - hath to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our concerts because the monsters weren't horrible enough -'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
Source: "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell
“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - hath to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our covers because the monsters weren't horrible enough -'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - had to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our covers because the monsters weren't horrible enough -'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
“In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.”
Source: Anissa's Redemption