Quotes About Imagination

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.