Quotes About Imagination

You have to go through a lot of crap to get to a good idea.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

The best defense is a good story.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

All good art is abstract.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.