Quotes About Creativity

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

A story just isn't a story without a dragon.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

I create neo-surreal gardens with my paint brush

All you need is one thought and one word. When you learn how to connect them, you can do anything you like.

Fantasy is a wise lie.

And he kept himself captive of his imaginations.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.