Imaginative Quotes - Page 18

• After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

  Jasper Fforde

  Summer, Reading, Healing

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Truth, Pride

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