Quotes About Imagination

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

'The House Of Tomorrow' offered such a fantastic script. I couldn't believe that script - it was just so original and unique.

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that's what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don't know if it's an official color.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society.

Oh! blame not the bard.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.