Quotes About Imagination

I used to dress up in my older sister Alisia's clothes and thought modelling would be fun.

Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from my own life - is that writing the truth often requires invention and imagination.

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.

I remember driving home from a movie - it wasn't 'Halloween' but another one, maybe the original 'Omen' - and I dropped my friends off, and it was also broad daylight, and yet I was sure that, like, Damien was in the backseat or something like that.

I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes dreams or readings, impose themselves suddenly and demand attention.

As an actress, I want to live many lives on-screen.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

I want the audience to be transported to a different world once they enter the auditorium.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

I've always loved far future SF, so it was more or less a given that I would one day want to write in that form.

I would like to one day write a nice big novel and enjoy writing it and people enjoy reading it but I cannae be bothered or I don't have any ideas that would fill up a big book like that.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.

One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.