Quotes About Imagination

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it's a dream for me.

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways.

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49 and turn it into a movie.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren't.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

I know you and Lloyd enjoy the idea of a ghost and that sort of silliness, but a sick old lady isn't going to understand your flights of fancy—or appreciate them!" Enjoy! Sarah thought indignantly. Flights of fancy! What would her mother say if she saw the porcelain shepherd moving across the dresser top!

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Ramona considered all these worries ridiculous, so she ignored them.

As a child I very much objected to books that tried to teach me something. I just wanted to read for pleasure, and I did.

A shivery feeling ran down Ramona's backbone, as if magic were taking place.

IF YOU ARE EATING PEAS THINK OF ME BEFORE YOU SNEEZE Signed, Yard Ape PRESIDENT

History of Drama did leave me with one valuable thought. One of the playwrights--was it Lope de Vega?--believed that ideas were somehow spewed into the atmosphere to be seized by anyone with a receptive mind, and that upon receiving an idea one should use it immediately because others were sure to pluck the same idea from the spheres. This one wisp of philosophy, no more than a sentence or two from a college course, has haunted me all my writing life.

She had lost interest in crayoning.

She's playing she's waiting for a bus," explained Beezus. Henry groaned. It was the dumbest game he had ever heard of.

I remember when Ramona named one of her dolls Chevrolet after the car." Everyone laughed.

Amy thought a moment. How could they get rid of their mother? "We could have her away taking care of a sick neighbor, and we are all alone in the house

She felt good from making a lot of noise, she felt good from the hard work from walking so far in her tin can stilts, she felt good from calling a grown-up pieface and from the triumph of singing backwards from ninety-nine to one. She felt good from being out after dark with the rain on her face and the streetlights shining down on her.

Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.