Quotes About Imagination

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid named Jake and his racecar that he had built from scratch, fully loaded with whatever fantastical gadget he or I wanted him to have at the moment. I loved making up the stories off the top of my head.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

We have secured names and trademarks with either loose ideas or intentions, or with our imaginations. Sometimes things come of it, or they don't.

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do.

When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I've always enjoyed fictional sleuths, especially Nancy.

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

I hear music as narrative.

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.