Quotes About Imagination

I fear that word, fabulous.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

When I'm writing stuff, I need to watch the scene in my head, like a little movie, or else it just feels stupid. It just feels very written. There are things that actors do and faces they make and pauses they take and their rhythms. You need that.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

I have a radio show/podcast called 'The Cryptid Factor,' which is about the search for creatures that may or may not exist.

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

Facts are not interesting to me.

'The Fades' is its own world. If you try and link it to some religion, you have people going, 'Oh, that's not right,' with their Bible open. Let's just chuck some imagination at it.

I never failed at anything in fiction.

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I don't really like fairies.

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

If you can make it as a children's party fairy, you can make it anywhere.

It's almost like my life is a fairytale.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

People want to see a magical fairytale story, but the reality is that I spent a lot of time making music alone in my bedroom.

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Santa was a fake.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.