Quotes About Imagination

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

I didn't have a lot of cash... but in my mind I looked like Lenny Kravitz!

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

I like to be the best version of myself. I really love to dress well, even for a casual family get-together. In fact, before I go to bed, I imagine what I'll wear the next day!

I've always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

I was probably 16 or 17 when 'Core' came out, and I just remember how Scott could cater to the song and create these characters. That blew me away.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

Thinking about the future will cause it to change.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

The arts are a celebration of life.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

I have spoofed celebrities before, but it's hard for me because I picture them watching it.

You can't censor people's dreams.

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.