Quotes About Imagination

People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

In dreams begins responsibility.

All my work begins with drawings.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.

I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!

Lucid dreaming is dreaming but you being aware that you're doing it.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

I think when you're young, being in love for the first time is like this fantasy.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

People say dreams aren't a thing that happen, and I'm a believer that they do.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

At eighteen, in a dream, he saw himself plodding through jungles, chinning up the ledges of cliffs, wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams. The peculiar thing about Everett Ruess was that he went out and did the things he dreamed about, not simply for a two-weeks' vacation in the civilized and trimmed wonderlands, but for months and years in the very midst of wonder...

In trying to understand McCandless, I inevitably came to reflect on other, larger subjects as well: the grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind, the complicated, highly charged bond that exists between fathers and sons. The result of this meandering inquiry is the book now before you.