Quotes About Imagination

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

I believe in working with your morning brain - you have your coffee, and then maybe you'll start thinking about the grand plan and what's going to happen in the next arc, and then you write for a while, and then you get really dreamy, and over the course of the day or in the middle of the night, something comes, and you just throw it in!

Sci-fi gives you the scope to do grand stories.

My father built me a theatre behind the house where I could put on plays. Dear me, I'm making it sound a bit grand, and it wasn't an amphitheatre or anything like that, just a little place with a roll-up curtain box and I'm sure the plays were childish lopsided things.

I might have some delusions of grandeur.

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.

I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.

I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me.

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.