Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes

Blank paper has always inspired me.

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

I love making up titles.

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

'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.

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

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

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if you want to do it.

I have got a good imagination.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

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.'

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.