Quotes About Imagination

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

Sometimes I'm more inspired by stuff that tells a story and less inspired by stuff that's not a natural extension of what I'm already doing.

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.

All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

I have not ever seen an extraterrestrial creature. That would be very cool if I did.

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

There was a whole sequence of concept art about a 'Fable' set in a kind of steampunk Victoriana age.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I think the charm of 'Fable' was in the feeling of the world and definitely the humor.

On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger.