Quotes About Imagination

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

I take random inspiration from everywhere.

When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will stick out, and I'll write from there.

I started to sing after high school, and I may have dreamed about being Randy Travis a time or two.

The range of 'Doctor Who' is, I would argue, bigger than the range of any other television program or movie franchise.

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the makeup range, it's just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.

I formulate my style based on a range of influences from books to films and my moods.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

Books do furnish a room.

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.

The future is limitless.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.