Quotes About Imagination

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

In a book, you can create a world in your imagination that's as intricate as you want. Even something like 'Angels & Demons.' I was reading it, thinking, 'This is incredible! This is so scary!'

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

The idea of being a designer is always something that has intrigued me.

There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I am a Tintin girl and grew up on Archie comics. Then I was introduced to Mr. Bean.

I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer's going to be introducing me... Derrick 'The Black Beast' Lewis... and I just always pictured him saying it.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

Color is so intuitive.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.