Quotes About Imagination

I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.