“Fiction results from imagination working on experience. We shape experience in our minds so that is makes sense. We force the world to be coherent—to tell us a story.
Not only fiction writers do this; we all do it; we do it constantly, continually, in order to survive. People who can’t make the world into a story go made. Or, like infants or
... See moreHome, imagined, comes to be. It is real, realer than any other place, but you can’t get to it unless your people show you how to imagine it—whoever your people are.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
In the words of speculative fiction writer Ursula Le Guin: ‘As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.’
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
There’s always going to be this chasm where it can only be leapt over through imagination rather than through empiricism. Empiricism can guide our imagination, but we still have to make that final leap on our own. To really get at this, you need to fuse the sciences and the arts. You need to think more broadly than just the products of research... See more
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
Generally, for some mysterious reason, we let our imagination work against us rather than for us. There we are, powerful, magical beings, and yet we allow our imagination to think of all the things that could go wrong instead of thinking of the things that we can enjoy and create.
Perhaps that is why I was drawn to the world of surrealism: to... See more
Perhaps that is why I was drawn to the world of surrealism: to... See more