Quotes About Imagination

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.