Quotes About Imagination

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

I enjoy reading books.

As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books or watching movies. My outlet was going to comic books because it got me out of this world and put me into that world and let me use my imagination.

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

I remember seeing stories on Wattpad with five million reads and thinking, 'That must be incredible.'

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

I'm ready to create.

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.