Quotes About Imagination

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

We must all learn how to separate reality from fantasy.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.

'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

I used to watch several films a day when I was a kid. This made me think about taking up acting as a career.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

There's no sex in Middle Earth.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

Reading is sexy!

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.