Quotes About Imagination

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

If I could play any character from the book though it'd be Church. Who wouldn't want to be a cat?!

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.