Quotes About Imagination

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.

It's pretty amazing to see something in your head and write it down, go out and shoot it, then see it on the big screen. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

With 'Space Dandy,' you've obviously got your image of the space and 80s music, and blending them together is how I created it.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

I have a darker imagination than most people.

My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

I have a really early childhood memory of being in a darkroom with Mum when I was four or five.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

I'm a huge David Hockney fan.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

A daydream is an evasion.