Quotes About Imagination

She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.

I wanted to be Samson or Hercules from the age of six.

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

Freddy Krueger was one of my childhood heroes.

How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.

I had grown up fantasising of being Yash Chopra's heroine because I have loved his films.

As a man, you think, 'Hey, man, I want to be like Bond or Tintin.'

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day it'll get made.'

Art is a hidden doorway that can change people's emotions.

I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

Sometimes... I'll just stand there... in the white room... and say stuff. I'm creating high-quality content.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.

I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head.

We listened to 'Beverly Hills.' I wanted to maybe even do a real 'Africa'-type version of that, I was thinking about for a minute.