Quotes About Imagination

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I've always been a big reader.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.