You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
We must dream our way.
Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
You’re never given a dream without the power to make it true.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.