Quotes About Imagination

I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.

No matter what I've worked on or what art practices I've delved into, they've always been an attempt to world-build.

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it.

The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how names come up.

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

My family's a huge fan of 'Lord of the Rings.' My dad probably preaches from 'Lord of the Rings' as much as he does the Bible.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Literature precedes genre.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.