Quotes About Imagination

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

I haven't had nightmares for some time, but growing up 'Grotbags' certainly haunted my dreams.

I don't think nightmares are necessarily bad for you.

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

When I was little, I used to have nightmares about Godzilla walking out of the Great South Bay, because we had a fire alarm out where we lived that sounded just like his feet.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

As much as I dream, I have nightmares.

It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.

Some nights, you want to be George Jetson, and other nights, you want to be sexy.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia, in a different culture? Until now, we hadn't gone to the Hindi audience with a good story.

I want to be like the Nike or Apple of children's books.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.

I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio.

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

When I was nine, 'The Borrowers' was such a big series for me!

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

When I wrote my first novel - I was nineteen - I did it very quickly. If you write fast, you feel like you're entering something not yet familiar - a world rather than thoughts about the world.