Quotes About Imagination

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

I love movies. They've always influenced the music i've done.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.

Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.