Quotes About Imagination

Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire world in your head and you feel like you know every minutiae of how everything should be.

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.

When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.'

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

I always respected country music for its narrative and how it's so solid, you can get the picture in your mind.

Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Solitude begets whimsies.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.