Quotes About Imagination

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

The novel is rescued life.

I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while I was sleeping, though. I do keep a pad near my bed, just in case.