Quotes About Imagination

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

I have been drawing all my life.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.