Quotes About Imagination

One of the things about horror movies that I've noticed with the children I've worked with is that they have a great time.

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

People didn't understand my passion. I dreamt big. I saw myself playing at Notre Dame. I saw myself in a classroom.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and then later, seeing them on the screen, comparing how they're different.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.