Christina Baker Kline Quotes

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

Writing is investigation.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.