Quotes About Imagination

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

We need new stories, but I am looking forward to 'The Dark Crystal'.

Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it!

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

Stories are emotional journey where we can project ourselves emotionally in another space.

I chase after inspiring stories.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I was just so intrigued with good stories from the time I was a little girl. When my parents would take us out to dinner, I would bring a book along. And they were perfectly happy with that.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.