Quotes About Imagination

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.

I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.