Quotes About Imagination

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!

People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.

Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.

Actors too need directors who can fire their imagination. The fire needs to be stoked.

To see where I've stolen all my ideas from, look no further than the comics at your local comic shop!

It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'

I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.

Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.

If I'd stopped dreaming, I don't think I'd be here; I'd be somewhere else.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.