Quotes About Imagination

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?

We were watching 'Madagascar' and Carmen asked me, she said, 'Is the zebra a boy or a girl?' and I said, 'He's a boy,' and she said 'How do you know?' and I said, 'Because I know him. I actually know all the actors that are doing the voices.' And she looks at me and she's like, 'You know a zebra? You know a talking zebra?'

I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

I love 'Doctor Who.'

'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

That's what I love about 'Doctor Who' - it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it.

I love a 'Doctor Who' cliffhanger.

I used to love playing paper dolls with my mother - she would cut them out and I would dress the dolls.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

The scribbler's life is never done.

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

Radio was always a doorway to something for me growing up.

For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.

Out of all of the things I've written, 'Dot' was the quickest from first thoughts to full production.

I'm a fan of Douglas Adams, yes.

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.