C. S. Lewis Quotes

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

An empty canvas is full.

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

Nothing is unfilmable.

Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new and surprising ways - that was a quality I strived to capture, with the hope that the reader would be willing to follow me.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

From a genre perspective and a character perspective, you know, sky's the limit.