Quotes About Imagination

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.