Quotes About Imagination

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.

I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you create 'cause you have to make them flesh and blood somehow.

We created out own little world when we were kids and that's what's so special about Donegal. You can create whatever you imagine here. There's so much nature to let your imagination take flight.

There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak.

Even when I meditate, I imagine myself in a dance movie, doing these turns and flips.

I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

When I dance, I picture myself and the floor in my head.

Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.

I used to sit and draw in the evening with a couple of crates of beer. That makes the ideas flow.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.

I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg once and couldn't really move around, I started playing around with it... putting the scent inside and dried flowers, and that's it.

I think of my body of work as a story that flows and plays in my mind like a film.

When you're writing in first person, like I do, you can't give a fluffy version of someone's thoughts because even the most prudish woman in her head will go to dark places, whether she says it out loud, you can still have these kind of thoughts.

Let the little fairy in you fly!