Quotes About Imagination

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

I find inspiration in everything.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

I've got quite a few inspirations - the list is kind of endless!

If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

I would say films inspire me more than the makers.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.