Quotes About Imagination

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.