Quotes about Imagination

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I know who the great poets are.

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.