Quotes About Imagination

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

I've always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking 'what if' but the ones who look to the sky and say 'why can't I shoot for the moon?'

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers

It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.