Lily Collins Quotes

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

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.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

I look for stories everywhere.

I really love storytelling.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.