I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.