Lana Quotes

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

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

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

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

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

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

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.