Quotes About Imagination

I grew up with action movies in my head.

I have an active imagination.

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

Educationists and teachers should think how they could play a role in making students spend time doing creative activities.

Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

Ad Astra' is a visually beautiful film but the story is the interesting part.

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I have creative ADD.

I'm like a child with musical ADD.

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room and a team of people augmenting and adding to the material.

I admire people who are creative.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

I have had a lot of dreams come true as a writer... I've gotten to work with artists I adored as a reader; I've gotten to write characters that changed my life as a kid.

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.