Quotes About Imagination

I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it.

I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a person can get away with, and why.

I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.

I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.

We started making independent records. We started in '94 until about 2000 when just kind of just did it ourselves... We'd write our own songs. No one cared... At some point, we decided to try and write our own original stuff and one of the last independent records is when we wrote the song 'I Can Only Imagine.'

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

My love was always in books. I was just one of those avid readers. Films came later, but the stories were always present.

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn to things that seemed impossible.

My teams in Serbia always had really good point guards. But I have always loved to dribble the ball. Even when I was outside, just walking by myself, I would always love to dribble and imagine my defender there in front of me - what I would try to do.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

At the end of every series, I think I won't do any more. But as long as I can think of fresh stuff, I can keep going.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head.