Quotes About Imagination

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In an uninterrupted world, I think we could have each of the tales finished, soup to nuts, in a week.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I've built over a couple of years... I love looking at people's faces when they walk into my office. They're literally astounded.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.