Quotes About Imagination

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

It was the Cheshire Cat who had said to Alice, "I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

You know what Lily Tomlin once said?" Sirius pretended to be interested in what Lily and I had to say. " 'I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

With all the apps available on our cell phones, it seems to me we're getting closer and closer to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Starfleet tricorders.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagined anything of who do the things that no one can imagine

Sometimes it's the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

There can be great value in imagining our hero at the end of the story. When we have confidence in our destination we are more inclined to put our hero in jeopardy.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

Glasgow is a magnificent city," said McAlpin. "Why do we hardly ever notice that?" "Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.

the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it "reading".

So the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

Still, it was vision, or at least vision's idiot cousin.

But one of the truly delightful things about science fiction is that it is far less about new ideas than it is about finding new ways to think about old ones.

I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn't everyone else's.

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.