#or

All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He’d prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#imagination

It was that reader that she'd found in Mama's trunk. At the schoolhouse they had McGuffey, good lessons about good boys and girls. But Meggie had found the worn, faded book of fairy tales. They had been much more interesting than the stern admonitions of McGuffey. And her imagination had taken flight. Fanciful, that's what her father had called it. And when she'd read about Rapunzel, she'd decided that none of the local boys would ever do. A real prince was coming up the mountain for Meggie Best someday. She was sure of it. Unfortunately, this morning she'd thought that he'd arrived. ↗

— Pamela Morsi

#meggie #pamela-morsi #imagination

Bugis Street, once famous for its transvestite prostitutes - the sort of place where one could have imagined Noel Coward, ripped on opium, cocaine and the local tailoring, just off his rickshaw for a night of high buggery - had, when it proved difficult to suppress, a subway station dropped on top of it. ↗

— William Gibson

#imagination

A little imagination goes a long way in Fes. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#morocco #travel #imagination

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it. ↗

— Chris Priestley

#imagination

Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone! ↗

— Cheyenne Mitchell

#mystery #supernatural-thrillers #suspense #the-covering #thrillers

It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power. ↗

— Roger Caillois

#fantasy #genre #horror #imagination

Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible ↗

— Roger Rosenblatt

#inspiration-for-writers #writing-instruction #art

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole? ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#hubris #mankind #mastery #perspective #world

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#art-of-life #good-advice #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life