Quotes About Imagination

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

I am baffled by good writing.

I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.

The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

You've gotta have time to be a kid, you've gotta have some time to play around and be goofy.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.