Quotes About Imagination

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.

I've tired of looking into the future, imagining all the things I want to have.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

I feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining.

Imagining things are there that are not really there, with the green screen, is very much like theatre, when you're looking at the fourth wall.

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.

What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?

It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

I love walking into an empty room and imagining what it could be.

I've been imagining spikes in my head since I was 13 years old.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

Any author gets inspired by the experiences and events that happen to him or his immediate circle. While that's where the seed or the idea germinates, by the end of the story, it accounts for hardly anything in the book.

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.