Quotes About Imagination

I did my first little kids' musical, 'The Sound of Music,' at 5, in a jungle gym, essentially. I was a made-up Von Trapp child, Ingrid Von Trapp.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

The Knife can't stop cloaking brilliant pop songs in voodoo jam blankets.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

I love seeing cosplayers, not just of Korra, but anybody.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

Very seldom do I use white in my books.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.

We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.

A film sells feelings.

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

I am not a very rough and tough kind of a girl, rather a little sensitive. I believe in unicorns, dreams and dolls.