Quotes About Imagination

Evoking the full power of your players' imagination must be your primary goal when in this environment. We could tell you what everything looks like, but that would leave you no room to work whenever the players entered the Umbra (looking things up always slows the story down). Besides, no one truly knows what the Umbra is, for it is different from every perspective-there is no right or wrong.

Creative imagination is a mystery. If you let it flow, it will happen, & you won't know how the idea came to you. It will just materialize.

A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There's music in the words.

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun.

If you write a novel a great adventure awaits you. And like any strange and wondrous journey, there will be uncertainty, even fear. Just keep going

If your fiction is good and true, your novel's ending will discover itself.

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

Tell me a story" is as old as humankind. It's a prehistoric request, going back to when people sat around fires in caves. A novelist's first goal, above all, is to tell a story.

A reader finds a new reality on the page, interacts with an imaginary world, and is enriched by doing so.

Don't write for the market or for others. Write what you know, love and above all, write what you would love to read.

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein

A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.

If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.

Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.

A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

The writer's imagination sets the template for the reader's to take over. The reader is a participant in the imaginative process.

The first step in writing is reading.

In my view, the written word ignites the brain in ways that cannot be achieved by any other medium.