James Hillman Quotes

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to peer into other worlds - even if you aren't going to stay very long.

I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted.

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor, and ever since I could remember, I had a really extravagant imagination.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

In a way, you normalize your own childhood to yourself, so I never thought about how much I wrote as a kid. So I was there, confronted with it - so many notebooks, so many tiny plays. Every week we put on a play. We had a big futon, so my sister and I would use the futon as our stage, and I wrote little skits and made her faint because I found it so funny.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.