Quotes About Imagination

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

Sometimes what you don't show creates more of a mystery.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

I've been so lucky to do different things. The world in which 'Westworld' takes place is so unique and bizarre, and it's really interesting to explore that whole universe with the language and brutality going on there. With 'Inferno,' there's the Dan Brown mystery.

I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life.

In 'Lost,' they really believed in the mystery box and not looking too much inside the mystery box. It was some kind of idea generator that you didn't need to dissect and open up. And that's absolutely fascinating and an engaging way to tell a story.

The main difficulty is finding an idea that really excites me. We live in an age when miracles are no longer miracles, and science and the future are losing their sense of mystery. For science fiction, or at least the type of science fiction I write, this development is almost fatal, but I'm still giving it all I've got.

Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just don't like it if it's super bad because I'm a loving person, I love everybody and human beings. I do have a darkness to me, but I would never do bad things or wish bad things on people, or hurt anything or anyone.

If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.