Patricia A. McKillip Quotes about Imagination

All Patricia A. McKillip Quotes Heart Imagination quotes Language Lying Silence Writing

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Sleep, Imagination, Golden

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

Patricia A. McKillip

Dream, Writing, Imagination

Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad range of emotional context that can't be transformed into food for the imagination.

Patricia A. McKillip

Reality, Emotional, Imagination

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Patricia A. McKillip

Running, Imagination, Magic

Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Alphabet Of Thorn”, p.159, Penguin

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

Patricia A. McKillip

Imagination, Strange, Moments

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Patricia A. McKillip

Imagination, Adults, Research

Patricia A. McKillip (2012). “Wonders of the Invisible World”, p.18, Tachyon Publications