Quotes About Imagination

Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.

I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours on my thumbnails sometimes just because it's, like, fun.

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I was just amazed by it. I just said, 'Hey Mom, can I do this too?' And so she signed me up for little theater classes, and I remember my first audition for a play when I was seven years old was for 'The Thankful Elf.'

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.