Quotes About Imagination

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

I had a vision of what it would look like if like seventy people at the same time went nuts and sprayed water everywhere.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.