Quotes About Imagination

But she needed to write it down to make it into a story instead of the truth about her life.

It's very odd, looking back, how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios.

Business-class travel. If you haven't done it, then you can only imagine it. And once you have done it, you can never unimagine it—you are ruined for life.

Music had always conjured up a sense of another life . . . of other, better ways of feeling and existing and being.

how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios. But still, seeing it now, in black and white, it really is quite shocking.

She had imagined her to be bohemian, arty, shabby chic. But this school did not speak of bohemia or shabby chic, it spoke of poverty, and for the first time it occurred to Rachel that maybe Lucy was poor.

think we're almost there," she said. "Think yellow," she added with an exaggerated wink. The boys let

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Maybe if he read enough novels about the problems of fictional people, he might find some clue about how to solve his own.

In defense of geeks," Justine said, "they're great in bed. They fantasize a lot, so they're really creative. And they love to play with gadgets.

When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, "Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?

But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

But life is what novels are about. A novel can contain more truth than a thousand newspaper articles or scientific papers. It can make you imagine, just for a little while, that you're someone else—and then you understand more about people who are different from you.

The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

If it is a fantasy fiction, and you want to portray a story of a vampire, you have to keep the essence of the story same. But if you have to have five episodes a week, where do we get so much content from?

I feel like no matter what I'm on, whether it's 'Tiny Titans' or 'Swamp Thing' or 'American Vampire,' there will be an element of horror in it. Which would be fun for 'Tiny Titans.'

I used to dress up in my mom's old clothes and play with these kids from the neighbourhood and make up stories: I would pretend that we were all vampires.

I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. Anything with sharp teeth, really. I remember you could get those fake vampire teeth, and I remember just keeping them in all the time.

All writers are vampires.