Quotes About Imagination

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.

I think there's a tendency with actor/directors to imagine themselves playing every part and trying to get people to follow their rhythm, their tempo, their pace. I've learned now to just love being at the center of this creative swirl.

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.