Quotes About Imagination

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Pinterest is not about sharing with your friends. It's about saving ideas for your future.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

I've always written short stories.

I like short stories.

I write short stories. I write every day.

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.