“If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.” IfsChildrenStoriesImagineWrittenHappenings Author:Paolo Maldini
“When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?” EndsStoriesProblemHappensKidsGrowsRealizingGrowing UpImagineAdultsWeakExcitingThings HappenDisappointedCompellingMundaneExciting ThingsMugglesMundane Life Author:Paul Waldman
“My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.” WorldCharacterStoriesNovelImagineHappenedGoes OnMy FavoriteReally Great Author:J.H. Wyman
“Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.” PeopleWayHeartI CanImportantStoriesSpiritCultureLiteratureParentImaginationImagineBest WayStorytellingHeart To Heart Author:Alice Walker
“Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.” LittlesStoriesImagineElementsLittle ThingsShort StoryNow And ThenPlaying God Author:Neil Gaiman
“Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.” WayStoriesMightImagineHeroOrdinaryClaimsEndureNotionIntimateEpicLarrySentimentality Author:Ron Shelton
“What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.” PeopleWritingStoriesStruggleImagineBurden Author:Tobias Wolff
“I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.” PeopleGivingStoriesToo MuchImagineMetsMy TimeFascinatedAdoreLonerInteractiveGregariousTalkative Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Read as much as you write. Go out and meet other writers. Look for stories in everything around you - music, movies, family, strangers, your bus ride to work, and of course the streets. Also - keep moving forward, keep creating new things. Leave evidence of yourself in this world. Imagine what your legacy could be and try to create it.” WorldWritingTryingLooksStoriesMovingCoursesImagineStreetsThis WorldCreatingEvidenceStrangerMoving ForwardLegacyBusNew ThingsKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardCreating New Things Author:Kevin Sampsell
“I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.” I CanStoriesHoursBreakImagine Author:Kevin Spacey
“It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.” WorldWritingI CanBookStoriesJobsGivenInterestingImagineSatisfactionAwfulComicFascinatingComic Book Author:Dennis O'Neil
“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.” ThinkingNeedsYearsWellsHeartLongI CanBookSelfMatterStoriesAbleTogetherTermBreakImagineHeardProudMy HeartHorrorMembersBehaviorFellowsUnionsCreatorLawyerComicDestructiveComic BookShort TermSelf DestructiveBreaking My HeartHorror StoriesGuildsSelf Destructive BehaviorDestructive BehaviorShort Term Thinking Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.” PeopleWritingTryingBookStoriesRememberFallProcessMemoriesImagineSeeingFrontsWallPagesDown AndVersionsThrowingAdaptationOur MemoriesOutlines Author:Akiva Goldsman
“The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.” DifferentStoriesImagineVersionsCastingTheoretical Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.” WorldMayStoriesShowsActorsImaginePossibilityMy FamilyExtraordinaryNeighborAccessSuperheroTransportAnother WorldPower Of Stories Author:Kandyse McClure
“I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.” StoriesFeelingsJoyAliveImagineWake Up Author:Hilary Swank