Quotes About Imagination

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?