Quotes About Imagination

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Being a digital artist enables me to take my signature pieces and place them in a dimensional reality that only really exists within my head. Then I can bring it to life.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it -- create it! The key is to design a compelling destination, while enjoying the journey!

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.