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Quotes About Imagination

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.
~ Virginia Madsen
I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
~ Scott Bakula
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.
~ Shane Warren Jones
When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
~ Stephen Malkmus
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
~ Stephen Malkmus
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
~ Don McLean
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
~ China Mieville
My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.
~ Giles Deacon
The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.
~ Lev Grossman
I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
~ Erin Morgenstern
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
~ Angelina Jolie
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
~ Umberto Eco
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
~ George Lucas
I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people
~ Lucinda Williams
As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
~ Chris Hemsworth
It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.
~ Mitch Albom
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
~ Terry Pratchett
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
~ Laini Taylor
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
~ Sarah Dessen
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.
~ Robert Reed
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.
~ Rob Lowe
There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
~ George R. R. Martin
I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt
~ Andy Partridge
The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
~ Ai Weiwei