Quotes About Imagination

Your library is your paradise.

Children are the keys of paradise.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.

I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal.

Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

I had my own Land of Lost Sidekicks, where I pretended I lived in Paris with my best friend, a little cowboy based on a Marky Maypo doll.

For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.