Quotes About Imagination

In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

Everyone has foods that take them on mental journeys.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

I've spent a lot of long car journeys listening to audiobooks, so I know firsthand just how amazing they can be.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.

We have to create images that remain in people's memory because a film is judged by what they have already seen. You are trying to create an image that is unique and you have to employ all the resources available to you.

We want to let our play be the judges.