Quotes About Imagination

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.