Quotes About Imagination

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

I'm never not planning for my future house. Most of the files on my laptop are devoted to different rooms in my dream house. I'm embarrassing.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.

Growing up, I remember planning for Halloween months in advance. It was, after all, my chance to be creative, artsy, original, and to just have fun!

I am planning to start my own production house and am keen on exploring some new ideas.

Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

You can plant a dream.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

When you hold something you created, drew, and conceived, and now here it is in 3D plastic - it is a rush.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.

My plan is to give myself the space and a platform to freely express my creativity.

I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.

In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.