J. K. Rowling Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fear, Thinking, Imagination

• Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

  J. K. Rowling

  Imagination, Innovation, Foundation

• Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

  J. K. Rowling

  Creativity, Sweat, Ideas

• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Imagination, Innovation

• Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Blessing, Imagination, Long

• However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  J. K. Rowling

  College, Views, Imagination

• Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Taken, Imagination

• Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

  J. K. Rowling

  Imagination, World, Witch

• My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Character, Imagination

• Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Vivid Imagination, Needs, Might

• Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  J. K. Rowling

  Imagination, Humans, Human Capacity

• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

• I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, Imagination

• I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Imagination, Healthy

• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

  J. K. Rowling

  Exercise, Imagination, Wonder

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.64, Hachette UK

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