Imagination Reading Quotes

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you. ~ Carmela Dutra

The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of. ~ S.A. Tawks

It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination. ~ S.A. Tawks

When you read a book, 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. ~ Nina Jacobson

The power of imagination is a miracle. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that. ~ Sara Sheridan

Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we are reading. ~ Peter Mendelsund

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach. ~ S.A. Tawks

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. ~ Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds. ~ Rinsai Rossetti

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. ~ S.A. Tawks

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination ... ~ Himmilicious

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list. ~ Kellie Elmore

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. ~ Aneta Cruz

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it. ~ Dodie Smith

Living on our planet requires a lot of imagination. Reading fosters it. ~ V.R. Duin

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it. ~ S.A. Tawks

Being ill when you are a child or growing up is such an enchanted interlude! The outside world, the world of free time in the yard or the garden or on the street, is only a distant murmmur in the sickroom. Inside, a whole world of characters and stories proliferate out of the books you read. The fever that weakens your perception as it sharpens your imagination turns the sickroom into something new, both familiar and strange; monsters come grinning out of the patterns on the curtains and the carpet, and chairs, tables, bookcases and wardrobes burst out of their normal shapes and become mountains and buildings and ships you can almost touch although they're far away. Through the long hours of the night you have the Church clock for company and the rumble of the occasional passing car that throws it's headlights across the walls and ceilings. These are hours without sleep, which is not to say they're sleepless, because on the contrary, they're not about lack of anything, they are rich and full. Desires, memories, fears, passions form labryinths in which we lose and find then lose ourselves again. They are hours where anything is possible, good or bad. ~ Bernhard Schlink

We are stripped of all that gave value and substance to our existence: power and love; in this naked final state, our last lover, our mate, death, comes. Bereft, without cover, we face the elements that will undo us. The winter breakers crash over and through us, flaunting their vigor and our nullity, as if the entire cosmos were now taking its ultimate revenge on the human creature who has lived too long: the dying sun mocks us from the west, for it will return tomorrow to die again, but we go down only once; the rising sun mocks us from the east, for we will not share in the rebirth of light and life; the noonday taunts us with its heat and vitality, for we are detritus; the north finally cloaks us in our last vestments: eternal night. That is how it ends. ~ Arnold Weinstein

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among all the other creative personalities, feeding a hungry imagination through the vicarious reliving of each and every wild chapter that stirred his emotions, the whole while surrendering to a safe yet daring existence where any crazy, hopeful thing can and does happen. That's all. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. ~ Alice Hoffman

How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you'd pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life. ~ Catherine Jinks

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them. ~ The Atlantic Monthly

Imagination is a sacred place. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world is small. Books make it bigger. ~ Jerry J.C. Veit

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. ~ Graham Greene

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer. ~ Jonah Lehrer

I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading. ~ Joanna Bolouri

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone. ~ Azar Nafisi

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there. ~ S.A. Tawks

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart ... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It's true that I've always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another. ~ Amy Plum

Correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers - most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people - all the more insidious and insincere. ~ Azar Nafisi

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. ~ Breckin Meyer

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

So: just drinks, minimal effort on his part, and you have travel to him. Ladies, are you getting sexually excited just reading this?! ~ Aziz Ansari

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all. ~ Laini Taylor

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen

I have inflammation of the imagination. ~ Lera Auerbach

Nita stood still, listening to Joanne's footsteps hurrying away, a little faster every second- and slowly began to realize that she'd gotten what she asked for too- the ability to break the cycle of anger and loneliness, not necessarily for others, but at least for herself. It wouldn't even take the Speech; plain words would do it, and the magic of reaching out. It would take a long time, much longer then something simple like breaking the walls of the worlds, and it would cost more effort than even reading the Book of Night with Moon. But it would be worth it- and eventually it would work. A spell always works. Nita went home. ~ Diane Duane

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. ~ Mark Twain

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick ... Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history ... should be rendered ... worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination. ~ Thomas Church

If you don't dream, then you don't really sleep. ~ Joshua Suya Pelicano

I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape. ~ R.L. Griffin

Don't dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you ~ S.E. Sever

This world is but a canvas for our imagination. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. ~ Leslie Fiedler

A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them. ~ Katharine Lee Bates

I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom. ~ Dave Barry

Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life- written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author? And suppose you could only read it on this condition: that you would never forget it, but would have to go through life knowing ahead of time exactly how everything you did would turn out, and forseeing to the exact hour the time you would die. How many people do you suppose you have the courage to read it then? Or how many could suppress their curiosity sufficiently to escape from reading it, even at the price of having to live without hope, without surprise? Life is monotonous enough at best; you have to eat and sleep about so often. But imagine how deadly monotonous it would be if nothing unexpected could happen between meals? ~ Jean Webster

for approximately forty-eight hours. In bed, Kate went through her nightly Facebook routine - reading through her news feed, allowing her mind to wander the endless tangents of mutual friends' photos and wall updates. Then ~ Kim Stolz

When I began to do a little public speaking, one of the questions I heard most often was, "What good is science fiction to Black people?" I was usually asked this by a Black person ...
What good is science fiction's thinking about the present, the future, and the past? What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing? What good is its examination of the possible effects of science and technology, or social organization and political direction? At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what "everyone" is saying, doing, thinking
whoever "everyone" happens to be this year.
And what good is all this to Black people? ~ Octavia E. Butler

Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living. ~ Sarah Johnson

Imagination is an abuse of power. ~ Johannes Grenzfurthner

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. ~ Joseph Joubert

Don't capture their hearts. Steal their imagination. ~ Roshani Chokshi

I always think this is the kind of place that people come back to. When they've become tired of everything else. Or when they don't have enough imagination to go anywhere else. ~ Jojo Moyes

The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run. ~ Michael Lewis

Is it not beautiful to discover a new path to your destiny and decorate it with the beauty of your imagination? ~ Debasish Mridha

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. ~ Peter Cochrane

Protect those who are weak in the world, guide those who think themselves lost, for as long as you are above, all paths will be straight and all hearts will be strengthened. ~ Brightly Woven

Books are cold but sure friends. ~ Victor Hugo

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters. ~ Mason Cooley

The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair. ~ William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Frieda B.'s a big dreamer, that's certainly true, but the world's biggest dreamer is also in you. All the color and music inside - set it free. Just dream your dreams big and believe they can be. ~ Renata Bowers

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know. ~ Chang-rae Lee

It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment ... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions ... More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature. ~ Ludwig Von Mises