Quotes About Imagination

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character that doesn't exist; make them seem like they do.

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

Something most people don't know about me is that I'm obsessed with technology. With that in mind, the 'material' I'd most like to experiment is the material that has yet to be invented.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.

My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house.