Quotes About Imagination

Each book was a friend.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

Murdoch Mysteries' has provided me with an opportunity to expand my craft and have learned so much about myself, about directing, acting and contributing the entertainment industry in ways that I wouldn't have imagined before.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

I'm a person who needs to keep working in a creative chakra all the time. That's what provides me with energy.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.

I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.

I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.

I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, 'I think you're cute.' And then I can be psycho. I will go in my head and make a whole life with him, he don't even understand why I'm mad at him. I'm like... 'cause you came in late last night!' And he's like, 'I don't even know you.'

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.