Quotes About Imagination

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

Time spent with poets is never wasted.

Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.

Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

It's nice to be able to challenge myself by playing real people. But at the same time it utilizes a different part of the brain to just invent new things.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.