Quotes About Imagination

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so that's how into me I was.

I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a character.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about them, and we start to learn a bit more about them.

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.

The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

It's beneficial to have that younger sensibility available to you during the writing process.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.