Quotes About Imagination

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.

There's something magical that happens to every three-year-old that hears 'Ring of Fire.' That's usually where it starts for most people. They immediately want to put on a black shirt, grab a guitar and sing 'Ring of Fire.'

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

I remember 'Battlestar Galactica' shot at the college that my dad taught at. I remember trying on a Cylon helmet. I think I was 6 or 7 years old.

I want my art to help people reimagine God.

Magic really helped me.

I care about actors, and I understand them in a very personal way. I'm not saying every writer has to do that, but in my case, it's been helpful. I can put myself into the scene and think, 'What would it be like to act this?' Any writer who's really good probably does that to some extent.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

There were people who went for serious mind enhancement, like Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon, although I didn't really need to do that. I was blessed with an incredibly fertile imagination.