Quotes About Imagination

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include as many different people and places and times as you want, working with pretty much only one person, the editor, whose job it is to get it in good shape for publication.

Bewitched' weaves a spell of fantasy that televiewers of any age can lose themselves in.

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

I look up spells for the heck of it. I haven't done any spells but I don't think that they wouldn't work.

I love to get in the library and just spend days researching characters.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

There are definitely times - and I think this is pretty common among cartoonists - where you spend an entire day trying to think of an idea, and you're like, 'I give up.' And then you go and take a shower or run an errand, and halfway there, you get an idea.

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

I think when you're in the middle of a piece of work, there are things that bleed over into your life. You're spending a large portion of your day pretending to be somebody else, to tell somebody else's story.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.