Quotes About Imagination

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.

Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.