Quotes About Imagination

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

I wonder…," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.

I am very practical, but at the same time, I am a dreamer and romantic.