Quotes About Imagination

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

You must try to forget all you have learned," said the old man. "You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

We dream every night, all the time.

While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.