Quotes About Imagination

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction. So for me, it's the same thing.

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.

What's difficult to do in books for children is to create funny incidents. Funny images, funny language and any kind of taboo-breaking is not difficult.

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.