Quotes About Imagination

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time" . . . they're lying

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.