Lucas Cruikshank Quotes

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

I have a very vivid imagination.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

I love making up titles.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.