Quotes About Imagination

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

It's one of my obsessions to come up with ways to reimagine establishing shots in new, non-boring ways. Shots that have energy and excitement.

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

At age 12, it was obvious. I had to go to Space Camp.

You can never guess what a kid's going to find funny - besides, you know, an obvious fart joke here and there.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there was no goalkeeper, and the coach put me in goal.

From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.