Quotes About Imagination

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and movies like that.

J. K. Rowling has said that she was bullied in school. She was a daydreamer and had her nose in books all the time, much like some of her characters today.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

It's not fair to tell an artiste what to be creative about.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.

The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'

I'm not interested in a world without magic.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that.

Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.