Quotes About Imagination

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

America is full of entrepreneurs, inventors, and dreamers.

I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible.

My imagination was really hyperactive as a child and animated. I had those elements, but as you live and go through the hardships, it fades. 'Pete's Dragon' reawakened that. It rekindled the feeling of the invisible dragon.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie!

Lists, and lists of lists, invite many questions and one that crops up here is: what makes a children's book last? When it's books for very young children, this is a matter that is almost entirely at the behest of adults - parents, teachers, critics, librarians.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.