Quotes About Imagination

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I am really good with Lego!

I wasn't the kid with the lemonade stand.

I wish that I'd written John Lennon's 'Imagine.'

My mother set us to an activity and let us be.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

I was a good liar as a child.

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.