Quotes About Imagination

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.

When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.