Best imagination & reading Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

Writing Mean Character Action Turns Reading Imagination Lines Deals Fiction Paradox Fiction Writing

Author:Amy Waldman

“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”

Whole Stories Reading Asks Imagination Ability Creative Written Reader Pages Whole Life Life Experience Written Word Creative Imagination

Author:Katherine Paterson

“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.”

Way Writing Mind Heart Used Certain Courses Reading Imagination Encounters Heart And Mind Lifelong Reading And Writing

Book:Three papers on fiction

Source: Three papers on fiction

“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?”

Reading Sound Imagination Music Musician Musical Score Strings Flutes Oboes

Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

“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.".”

Want Said Book Able Reading Stuff Imagination Challenges Inspire Scripts Capture Not Interested My Imagination Books And Reading Turned Down

Author:Karl Urban

“Holly is living proof that C.S. Lewis was right when he said that a good atheist can't be too careful of her reading. A lover of the word, she discovered through it the love of the Logos, whose beauty fills all of creation. She found the courage to follow the spilled drops of human imagination back to the One who ‘reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power' (Heb 1:3).”

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Author:Mark P. Shea

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.”

Children Reading Imagination Powerful Our Lives Essentials Laughter And Love Love And Laughter

Author:Malachy McCourt

“Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images.”

“It's the fact that fans still care. I like all the comics conventions: The smaller ones are easier, the bigger ones are exciting.... Each one I say: Never again. But they're all great.... These things are important because they keep the fans' interest alive in comics. They keep the fans reading and their imaginations stimulated.”

Stills Important Facts Care Reading Interest Imagination Alive Fans Easier Bigger Exciting Conventions

Author:Stan Lee

“Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.”

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Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.”

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Book:Democracy and other Addresses

Source: Democracy and other Addresses

“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.”

Book Reading Hours Imagination Fire Advice Students Reflection Forgotten Proportion Scholar

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.”

Way Self Reading Imagination Conscious Drinking Alcohol Ritual Crucial Self Conscious Ingenious

Author:Daphne Merkin

“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”

“I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.”

Thinking Mind Character Reading Imagination Fiction Imagine Science Fiction My Imagination Triggers

Author:Nicolas Cage

“On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.”

May Form Reading Imagination Fiction Air Bears Reader Wings Gentle Fancy Castles

Book:The cry (1754)

Source: The cry (1754)

“A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.”

Reading Imagination Powerful Excellence Flight Pairs Enjoyable Reading Experience

Author:Roger Zelazny

“The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.”

Thinking Feels Long Book Moments Use Lasts Reading Imagination Pages Treasure Forests Islands Great Book Magical Moments Treasure Island David Thoreau

Author:Tony Robbins

“The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.”

Writing Reading Imagination Compassion Writing And Reading Elasticity

Author:Julia Alvarez

“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.”

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Author:Kate Cary

“Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.”

Country Reading Left Imagination Fascinated

Author:Michael Tippett

“Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.”

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Author:Kate Atkinson

“I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as good as the book'? It's often true because nothing competes with your own imagination. When you're reading a book and you imagine something in your head, nothing's going to compete with that.”

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Author:Amber Heard

“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.”

Way Writing Mind Book Reading Imagination Waste Stuck My Way Wasting Time My Imagination

Author:Cynthia Kadohata

“In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.”

Dream Desire Turns Passion Reading Given Imagination Shapes Pages Aspiration Thoughts On Life Given Life

Author:Rebecca West

“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”

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Author:Stephen King

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“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.”

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Author:Robert Hass

“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.”

World Book Order Reading Games Imagination Hunger Come Up Tone Buttons Bandwidth

Author:Nina Jacobson

“When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.”

Mind Sometimes Reading Imagination Instinct

Author:Alexandra Breckenridge

“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.”

“Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.”

Use Reading Imagination

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.”

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Author:Gregory A. Boyd

“Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap of many years and realize that it has been there all along, without any memory of where it was first encountered. But it may have been working away all the time.”

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Author:Tom Shippey

“For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.”

Writing Long I Can Remember Reading Imagination Enjoyed Reading And Writing Wild Imagination

Author:Gabriel Campisi

“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”

“I think if you can show a kid that reading can actually be fun, it can make you laugh, inspire imagination - that can make a huge difference, that can help a child who's struggling with reading to really look at it differently.”

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Author:Dav Pilkey

“I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.”

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Author:John Larroquette

“When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.”

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Author:Laila Lalami

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