Quotes About Imagination

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

The microscopic world became my obsession.