Quotes About Imagination

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

As a footballer, you still have to dream.

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.

Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

Art is forever.

I am forever living in my childhood.

I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.