I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. Amy Waldman
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. Amy Waldman
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. Bob Kane
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. Ellen Key
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. Luigi Pirandello
When you are young your imagination is so clear. Nina Blackwood
I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful. Max Irons
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. Eduard Hanslick
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go. Ann Wilson
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am. Alessandro Nivola
It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting. Charlie Hunter
I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless. Cliff Martinez
She has no imagination and that means no compassion. Michael Foot
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. Donald Sutherland
To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. Luigi Barzini
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. Daphne Zuniga
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination. Emma Caulfield
It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism. Michelle Forbes
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. Jessica Hagedorn
Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination. Richard Lugar