Quotes About Imagination

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

Your imagination has much to do with your life.... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.