Quotes About Imagination

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

You can only write your own vision.

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.'

When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this guy remind you of someone? What does the room feel like? Notice smells, voice inflection, neighborhoods you pass through. Be a cinematographer.

I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction.

I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

I am not a consecutive writer.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?