Quotes About Imagination

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they see fit.

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.

It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

I don't very often read novels.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.