Quotes About Imagination

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.