Quotes About Imagination

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

I think purple is a great color.

I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

I don't want the child in me to die. Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that my profession allows me to pursue my boyhood fantasies even as an adult.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you're young, 'I want to be president' or 'I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.' That's what it was to me.

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.