Quotes About Imagination

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

That'Â's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.

The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play.

You need to wake up if you want to dream.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Im pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.

I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.