Quotes About Imagination

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

I do enjoy working with writers.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Writers are not meant for action.

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look for wrecks. Then, six months later, I might start another book.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.