Quotes About Imagination

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Books are a time machine.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

Madison, or "Maddie, " as she preferred, wondered what could be at the end of that road.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.

If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

When a character comes to life, it's like meeting a new friend for the first time.

Say you want to live life like a movie.Keep in mind there's a running time.

I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.

I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time.

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

It's 1am, I have fiction to write!

You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!

The beliefs you hold strongly in your mind will become your dreams and in time become your reality.