Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. James Welch
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. Chris Van Allsburg
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? James Thomson
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters. Deborah Ann Woll
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. Ahmet Zappa
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. William Trevor
I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination. Isabelle Fuhrman
I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful. Rachel Zoe
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination. Charles Keating
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination. Jeffrey Katzenberg
It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. Michael Apted
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. Chris Cooper
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. Barbara Januszkiewicz
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? Bonnie Jo Campbell
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? Iain Sinclair
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. Rhona Mitra
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. Ariel Dorfman
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. Janet Frame
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. Breckin Meyer
I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild. Malcolm McDowell