Quotes About Imagination

I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.

But that's one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.

I was one of those kids that always drew all the time.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.