Quotes About Imagination

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.

I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.

Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, 'What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?' everybody shut up.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

What I have always loved about modelling is the chance to play a part. I am quite shy naturally, but I like getting into somebody else's head space, understanding how people work and the psychology behind their actions.

I was a very shy kid and really into art.

I grew up feeling 'less than.' I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I'd wait for my grandmother's voice to call, 'Jewell, Jewell.' I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I'd be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.

I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.

I was a shy little girl. Growing up, I was often content being alone in my room, making up stories, and acting out all the parts. I became so good at it that, with the door closed, my parents thought I had friends over.

Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

I remember bossing my younger siblings around and making them put on shows and skits with me.

I remember in grade school having a group of friends and enjoying that sense of community, enjoying living in an imaginary world that wasn't just by yourself or your sibling but a whole group of people.

What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

I could never imagine ever in my life that I'd be on the side of The Louvre.