Quotes About Imagination

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

For 'Minecraft,' it actually started with an isometric strategy game.