Quotes about Imagination

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.

How can anyone refute another person's personal experience? The answer is, by appealing to the Word of God. The Bible itself teaches that if an experience is not consistent with God's Word, we must reject it, regardless of how impressive the experience may seem (Gal. 1:8). Demons are capable of mimicking authentic spiritual experiences and masquerading as angels of light. Even on its own, the fallen mind is capable of deceiving itself and imagining things.

I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus "with all five senses."

The sinner... while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.