Ed Emberley Quotes

Imagination is the air of mind.

It's important to have an imagination.

I have got a good imagination.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

Imagination decides everything.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

You can't rush inspiration.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.