Quotes About Imagination

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.