Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or dark - it's the variety we see as readers. It's nurturing the imaginations of those who will go on to create the world around us.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting all this input and using it to make things better - basically, creating better solutions.

Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.

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.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

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

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.