Quotes About Imagination

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.

Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to 'work' was too appealing to ignore.

There's nothing more fun than seeing the things that you dreamed about when you were a kid come true. I'm headlining an iconic theater in New York City during the New York Comedy Festival. When you're starting off as a comedian, you don't think that's ever going to happen.

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the physical side of life is that I can have them on my shelf.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?

I just like to draw and put ideas down. And every idea that Nickelodeon doesn't buy I put on the Noog Network.

My dad's nickname was MacGyver when we were kids. He'd hijack my projects all the time. When I got older, he would not do it as much... but he would just end up hijacking the whole thing. You should see the look in his eyes when he gets to create stuff.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.