Quotes About Imagination

What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

There are so many situations when you feel like your heart is breaking. I keep those emotions pent up, so I can create stories around them and shape what I would say from another perspective.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a character.

Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

When I come up with a character, I know how he lives and breathes.

I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.

If you like my renditions of faerie-folk, then you will most certainly like Brian Froud's work.

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time because you know what you're doing. With writing a novel, you have to figure it out each time. Each time you start over, you just have the language and the idea and the hope.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

Kids who read are bright.