imagination Quotes

We are the storytelling animal.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

Nothing is unfilmable.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.