Imagination : (58) " I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role playing and stuff. " - Tony Todd " When I’d written my ‘Silverwing’ series – I’d imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary. " - Kenneth Oppel " I think I’ve always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was ‘your’ boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get ‘you.’ " - Mohsin Hamid " A lot of ‘Stranger Things’ is having to be able to, in your mind, turn a little tennis ball into a huge monster. In Season 2, there was one scene where I was screaming at the monster and I was screaming at nothing. It was just the sky. So I really have a big imagination, I guess? " - Noah Schnapp " For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one’s imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all. " - Edward Rutherfurd " I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers’ imagination. " - Rick Riordan " I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that we have seen in life, but science fiction is different: what it depicts exists only in the author’s imagination. When it comes to science fiction, the written word is inadequate. " - Liu Cixin " Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. " - Ludwig Wittgenstein " Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere – the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. " - Tim O'Brien " We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that’s part of the problem. We’re letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they’re very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That’s the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it. " - Alexis Wright