Quotes About Imagination

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

I think readers' imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.

I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.

You need books to read and readers for books.

You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.