Quotes About Imagination

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

Fiction is an improvement on life

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.