Quotes About Imagination

You have to let the costume inform you.

I remember watching 'Three's Company' with my parents, and it was time for bed, so I started to make my voice lower like Don Knotts and imitating him. They started laughing, and I didn't have to go to bed, so that informed a lot.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If you're going to inhabit someone else's world, the very least you can do is to spend a little time in it.

When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.

I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look there - such was my passion!

I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.

Film has its own innate poetry.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

I like the idea of creating from your inner youth. You don't have to think too hard about it. Just make what feels good.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.