imaginative spark Quotes

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.

I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.