Quotes About Imagination

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded my expectations. It was just above and beyond.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

From that experience, I learned that Roddenberry's "box" forced us to be more creative and to tell stories in more interesting and different ways than we would have in any other typical universe, so I loved that box.

A writer is thinking about what he's supposed to be doing, whether he's actually doing it or not, every waking hour. He's constantly pondering problems.

I used to call it "Roddenberry's Box," and I loved being in it, because the restrictions forced us to be more creative than going into the routine melodramas that we often see in SF television.

despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.

For all the insomniacs of the world I want to build a new kind of machine For flying out of the body at night. This will win peace prizes, I know it, But I can't do it myself; I'm exhausted, I need help from the inventors.

The poet of Whit-manesque ambitions must find a way to present something that has as its sole purpose taking things away.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.