Quotes About Imagination

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

If you're dreaming up a dessert, you've got to remember to keep it well balanced.

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.

I love the idea of seeing a character - I mean, there's nothing like seeing a character and having the huge detail and roundness that a character in a book can give you. It's so much more full than a character in a script can give you, isn't it?

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

I wanted to be an actor when I was young, and I wanted to be a detective.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!