Quotes About Imagination

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

My novels are all ideas.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.

I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to it, and I exalt it and take it seriously in a way that I think has just permeated my life ever since. And I'm less interested in music that is novelty or jokey or ironic.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.