Quotes About Imagination

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

There are no hard times for good ideas.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

What should a good children's book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

We need literature because we wouldn't fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.