Dependent Quote by Astrid Lindgren

The imagination of today is the reality of tomorrow.

— Anonymous

Imagination governs the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

— L. Frank Baum

Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too…

— L. Sprague de Camp

“Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.”

— Sandra Alex

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that…

— Robert Greene

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

— Dwight Yoakam

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

— Daniel Pennac

Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would…

— Maxine

“I understand that through books one is able to journey. One is able to smell and taste and go into different worlds without actually…

— Ishmael Beah

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

— Dee Rees