imagination Quotes

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

I would always want printed books.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.