Quotes About Imagination

I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

The two questions I always ask myself are 'What if' and 'Why not?

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about limpid prose, about the faithful reproduction of consciousness, about moral heft, but rarely about the power of pure, unadulterated imagination.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

If L. Frank Baum had written 'Wicked,' I'd have done. It doesn't appeal to me at all and never did.

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.

I think the people you have to fear most in life are the people who dream with their eyes wide open.

When I was a kid and my dad was playing for Man United, I used to stand behind the goal watching Eric Cantona, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Mark Hughes, Andrei Kanchelskis, Ryan Giggs... and I used to try to save all their shots that went wide, imagining I was deciding the title for United.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.