Quotes About Imagination

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our dreams, they are riding alpacas or juggling tacos - but that doesn't mean those dreams are necessarily about babies. Look, I'm not Freud.

I don't dream small. But then, what are we without our dreams?

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

The best part of our lives is just every day when we are writing.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

All the stuff we have to edit out of our music, we put in our kids book.

To me, there's so much we don't understand about our world, and I think it's really fascinating to see these people come up with the stuff that they come up with.

In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this world, which I needed.

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.

At the end of the day and at the beginning of the day, I am a man who dresses up like a lady who is from outer space. Not everyone is going to get that. Not everyone is going to be on board with that.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.

I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life, I found in books. Books that made me think and transported me into a different world.

I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.

The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.