Quotes About Imagination

I grew up dancing, so that was always my first dream. But I also have a passion for acting. I would love to step inside of a character and be somebody that I'm not, because I feel like it just gives me an outlet to express myself without being me.

I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to create. It's been my ability to create my own world.

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

Theater is an amazing outlet.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

Art is a creative outlet and necessary for people involved in creativity.

I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet - I'm really passionate about it.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just kind of take over sometimes.

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?

All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn't feel inspired to me. I get bored with that, and really, I just want it to be fun.

I don't really outline. I just kind of know where I'm going in my head, so I'll write and discover it for myself. Or I'll just write an entire episode and throw it out because I land on an idea and realize that's where I should jump off from.

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they are about.

I think I have a romantic idea of life; I certainly have a romantic outlook. I think. I hope.