Quotes About Imagination

I don't think in a linear form.

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

I always listen to music while I draw.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

You go and you see a piece of art; you're looking at it outside of you. When you listen to a song, the singer's voice is being put together in your own head. The effort that you as the listener has is part of the artwork in a sense.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

I need the lightness of children's lit.

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

Movies are too literal.

I don't ever get too literal.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Each person has a literature inside them.

I've always said that music is like literature.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Everybody draws when they are little.

There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.