Quotes About Imagination

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.

Fantasy and science fiction are my comfort spot.

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

If you build a life around an identity that springs from your own imagination, is it ever inauthentic?

In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.