Quotes About Imagination

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

I loved cartoons as a kid, and so many funny moments in animation for me are nonverbal sounds, unarticulated mouth noise.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

Innumerable lovers of Hindi cinema have lit up the big screen. But on screen, they are just two beautiful bodies. They have no caste nor religion. The love that our filmmakers imagined was little more than make-believe.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

When I go to a movie, I want to see stuff that I don't see in my normal life, and I want to see it all.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.