Quotes About Imagination

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.