“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.”

— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977

About Richard Bach

Born 1936

American author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Illusions".

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”

“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”