Quotes About Imagination

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

I used to pretend like I was 27 years old and about to get married and unsure if this was the right guy for me when I was 12.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

It's Shane Black. He's a world unto himself. His world is so fun and crazy.

An obsession with untold stories is a source of energy.

The characters I like offer a room for imagination about their untold past and future, even when the given scripts don't explain enough about them.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Singing in character you can be more of a show off or more modest because it isn't yourself it's a nice way to sing, unusual, a bit like being in musical I guess.

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.