Quotes About Imagination

The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.

I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.

A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

I used to love watching Angela Lansbury and other people when they were doing voice-overs for Disney shows. You'd see them doing these wild gestures in front of the microphone. I used to think, 'Is that really necessary?' What you realize when you're doing it is that that's the only way.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.

Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

I do tend to fall to the dark side of things visually sometimes.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.