Quotes About Imagination

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis?

While I was recording 'Ziltoid,' the movie 'Mars Attacks' came on TV, I think, six times in one week. So I don't know if there's any direct references or anything, but the aesthetics of that movie was definitely around while I was creating the music, so I'd be lying if I said it wasn't part of it.

I've always had a good handle on drawing children.

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.

If you dream it, it can happen.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

No matter what happens, one should not stop dreaming... dreams do come true.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.

You can quite happily exist in your own version of the world built around you, which you can build for yourself.