“Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?”
Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing
“I stared at the lute. At the darkness of the small holes amid the twisting decoration of the wood. I imagined, ridiculously, a world inside there. Deep in the shell of the lute. Where some miniature version of ourselves could live, safe and invisible and unharmed.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“For what does it mean to look at something, a real object in the real world, an animal, for example, and say that it is something other than what it is? It is to say that each thing leads a double life, at once in the world and in our minds, and that to deny either one of these lives is to kill the thing in both its lives at once.”
Source: The Invention of Solitude
“As her figure coarsened, her soul became ever more romantic, and when her corpulence riveted her to her chair, her imagination continued to wander through tender adventures, of which she was the heroine.”
Source: Une vie
“She could not help recalling the bustling which had attended Eduard's celebration of her own birthday, she could not help thinking of the newly erected pavilion under whose roof they had promised themselves so much pleasure. The fireworks exploded again before her eyes and in her ears; the lonelier she was, the more she lived in imagination; yet the more she lived in imagination, the more alone she felt. She leaned upon his arm no more, and had no hope of ever being able to lean on it again.”
Source: Elective Affinities
“The key to a fertile imagination is filling your mind with bullshit.”
Source: Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
“Either way, his dreams were filled with bronzed faces and heavenly wings, hallucinating millions of eyes and Angels staggering on tenement rooftops, screaming unworldly oaths over the tops of cities, and drowning in their imagination.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.”
“A conclusive mind cannot be a creative mind.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“What good are all these gadgets, if the life you live with them is mean and unimaginative?”
Source: The Confessions of a Harvard Man : The Street I Know Revisited: A Journey Through Literary Bohemia, Paris & New York in the 20's & 30's