Quotes About Imagination

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention.

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.

I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.

Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it's something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

More than anything, I wanted to be Aragorn in 'Lord of the Rings,' and I wanted to be Lirael in the 'Sabriel' trilogy. The only way I was ever going to get to do that was act, so I tried.