Quotes About Imagination

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

It's chaotic. I have heard blood-curdling screams, and every time I hear it I think someone's being brutally murdered, but I realize it's a werewolf.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there's a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.