Quotes About Imagination

I spent hours playing in the garden on my own. I used to play cricket with myself. I never remember thinking, I wish I had a brother or sister. I had a lot of friends, and that was fine.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

In Scotland, Dad grew courgettes which were the size of my leg. I'd step into the garden and it was like 'The Day of the Triffids.'

I have played quite a few Test matches in the back garden with my two brothers.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.

There's something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.

Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your imagination, strong legs, and a couple of friends, and it's a game.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

My own personal geek culture years were when I was much younger. I collected comic books up until a certain age. I wanted to be a comic book artist when I was younger.

I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.

I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.

Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

My goal is to generate more material for myself.

Generating comic material can sometimes get the better of you.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.