Quotes About Imagination

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

The rules - I think that's one big thing that people seem to get caught up in is that I have to know all the rules... But, one thing you have to consider as a new Dungeon Master is you do not have to know the rules like the back of your hand.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

I like keeping an ongoing list of dream collaborators on my phone. I like to write down all of my dreams, actually.

Sometimes I'll get ideas in the middle of the night. Sometimes at 3 in the morning I'll get up, and I have a notebook by my bed and have to write it down. I'll dream an idea. Sometimes I see an image online, and I think, 'OK, let's make that a three-layer cake!'

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I think for me, growing up as an only child, I didn't have a lot of people around me or a lot of foreign influences, so growing up, I really kind of got lost in my imagination - for the better.

I grew up as an only child.

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

You spend a lot more time on your own as an only child. And there's space to allow your imagination to take flight.