J. A. Konrath Quotes

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

You can be imaginative, you have the technology to convert your vision, you have the freedom to write the kind of stories you want to tell beyond the set formulas. Also, you have varied platforms to tell different kinds of stories.

What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.