Quotes About Imagination

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

It's wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated to a place where I was safe. And that place was my imagination, books, and television.

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater.

I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

The film 'Back to the Future' certainly did a lot to put me where I am today, and I did not foresee that. I just was hoping the film would open successfully, the first one, but it's gone way beyond what I think most of us have imagined.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.