Quotes About Imagination

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street, Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.

It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

I love a match like Money in the Bank; I love a hardcore match, and that's what the Money in the Bank ladder matches are. Throw the rule book out and let out your imagination.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.

Our back garden is allegedly haunted by a ghost called the Grey Lady. When one of my daughters was three, she said she'd been speaking to a lady in the garden and we went running around trying to find this woman. There was no one there.

Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

'Dragon's Lair' was real ill.

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.

'Cemetery Lake' was an interesting book to write.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

If the concept of the Enterprise crew meeting the Legion of Super-Heroes doesn't appeal to you, there may be something wrong with you.

I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years ago, the woman was someone I imagined in my head. Now they're real. It's important my work evolve along with me and that I show more facets of myself.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.