Neil Gaiman Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

• I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Reading, Exercise

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

• I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

  Neil Gaiman

  War, Imagination, Soldier

• There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Pain, Real

• When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.

  Neil Gaiman

  Psychics, People, Imagination

  "Good Omens". Novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

• Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

  Neil Gaiman

  Imagination

  San Diego Comicon, 2007.

• The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Imagination, Muscles, Atrophy

• In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.

  Neil Gaiman

  Imagination, Needs, Awful

  "Neil Gaiman On Returning To 'Sandman,' Talking In His Sleep And The Power Of Comics". "Fresh Air" with Sam Briger, www.npr.org. December 15, 2015.

• When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

  Neil Gaiman

  Imagination, Looks, Gone

• The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real world, in that I'm trying to write about whatever it is the experience that makes us human, the things that we have in common.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Real, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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