Quotes About Imagination

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

The secret of success in business is creativity.

I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around and trying to come up with great characters and fun ideas.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of "What if...

My best ideas come in the shower, where I'm showered with water, but also ideas.

Your world is created by your words.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.