Quotes About Imagination

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.