Quotes About Imagination

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Video games is a big part of a kids' life. Videos games let you be something that you're not, so does acting, but it puts you in like a real situation type thing or something totally different.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.