Rose Macaulay Quotes

I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

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.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

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

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.