Quotes About Imagination

I love games like 'Flower,' for example - I thought this was amazing. It's great, it's new, it's different, and it's invented something that didn't exist before.

As a writer you often watch things with a certain distance.. More often, you're worried that something that you have invented is going to become reality, and you'll look like you copied it.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying, why don't you write about me?

Architecture is invention.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

We should have more invention.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

I'm an inventor.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.