Quotes About Imagination

My inspiration comes from everything, everywhere. Just the people around you, the things you see and most definitely your experiences. Once I get an idea, it pretty much writes itself.

I don't think of myself as a guy who writes for kids, I really don't. I try really hard to write a good, solid sitcom.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.