Quotes About Imagination

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I'm a librarian.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.