Quotes About Imagination

In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven't tidied up. That would be really helpful.

I'm happy at Real Madrid and can imagine ending my career here - if all goes well.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

Watch a child play, and you will see real power. They are fearless.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.

Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

It was so emotional to step onto the Millennium Falcon set because that was the play set we all had when we were kids. Suddenly, you were standing in the real thing. There's this rush of unreality about it.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.