Quotes About Imagination

It's so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I'm most proud of came from a real thing in my life - 'Peter Pan' being one of those.

The ability to create anything I want without rules is the real thing I love about drag.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

If you're building a fantasy world that exists outside of the rules of our real world, why would you write it to conform to the rules and binaries that we have today? Why still limit yourself?

When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres.

Only the filmmakers need to realise your potential.

Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I did that, too, or maybe I started doing it in imitation.

When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by day; but would anybody become a writer if they realised at the outset what the working hours were?

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.