Quotes About Imagination

Being an only child, I was alone a lot and I had to make up games.

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

Because I was an only child, I lived in a very grown-up world.

You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

On one level, all of the characters in 'Game of Thrones' grow out of George R.R. Martin's imagination. Therefore they are his. As long as they are in the novels they are his. But the moment they step forth onto the TV screen, they become filtered through the showrunners. In a business sense, it's the same way with comics.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.

What works for me in 'Indiana Jones' is the fact that I can project myself onto the character. Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does. But I can't do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.

It's really fun to think about what it would be like to see Walter Davidson step onto a modern-day motorcycle. He'd probably go insane! But motorcycles were such a part of him.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.