Quotes About Imagination

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

I really don't believe in magic.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

The magic is you can change more things than you could ever dream of.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

I love to live in a magical place.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.