Quotes About Imagination

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

Childhood's work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

A good title is a work of a genius!

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.