Quotes About Imagination

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'

Certain personal issues forced me stay away from movies for a while but that does not mean I was idle and cut away from cinema. It was during that break that I wrote two books and found the time to dream about new scripts and plots.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Every time I write 'Stephanie Plum', it's going to be Katherine Heigl's face there.

I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.

Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that simple.

I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Young people have so many great ideas so I can't wait to hear what children from around the country have come up with. 'Pocket Money Pitch' will encourage them to believe in themselves and 'have a go.'

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.