Dries van Noten Quotes

Imagination is the air of mind.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

It's important to have an imagination.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Imagination comes of not having things.

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

I'm used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.