Quotes About Imagination

I've watched my mom take a plain piece of paper and create something beautiful out of it, and I think that kind of manifested for me in taking a character from the page and bringing that to life.

In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains.

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

I wanted to be an air hostess because I thought it was the most glamorous thing - and I'd never been on a plane.

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

Planes do not inspire me.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.