Gale Harold Quotes

My portal to another world was fiction.

There is nothing "useful" about fashion, which is why it is fashion and not clothes. My personal opinion about the runway is that it should be used to whisk the audience off to a fantasy world that is possible, but not probably. It should delight and inspire.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four years and not learn something. And just watching the way the show was done, and watching the way that David encouraged the imagination.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

Dreams, books, are each a world.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

Imagination encircles the world.

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

It's really fun to create something that touches the world.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.