Quotes About Imagination

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

I spend most of my time writing.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

I dream about running all the time.

The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

I grew up in a big movie house, we watched movies all the time, so I had an awareness at a very young age that that was a job that you could have.

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.