Quotes About Imagination

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.