Quotes About Imagination

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cultural shows, and in my notes, I would actually create formations of people. It was how my whole brain worked.

I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.

One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you have a lot of water and baptism imagery in your book. Did you do that on purpose?'

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.