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"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
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"Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!"
"Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere."
"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
"Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love."
"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
"Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time."
Explore more quotes by John C. Hawkes
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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