Quotes About Imagination

A writer must learn to be comfortable with buried, shadowy currents deep in the mind, those that form dreams & make hidden connections.

A writer's fiefdom is the entire world--everything seen, heard, felt & thought--all augmented by imagination.

Every novel begins with one sentence. Then comes another. And another.

As a writer, you write about the world as you see it, and about yourself in disguise.

A writer should not wait for inspiration; it won't come. Inspiration is fueled by the act of writing, by the sweat of the effort, by the work.

Every reader is a casting director.

Reading is a great way to travel anywhere in the world without making reservations. It's a trip to wherever you wish to go.

Harness your dragons. Turn them into stories.

I read for pleasure, to expand my world, to learn more, to live outside myself, yet enrich my inner life.

Reading: the best way I know to inhabit other lives, travel to distant places, have great adventures, gain knowledge and experience the world.

Fiction is a lie that tells deep truths

Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.

There's a novel in every life's story. You must have courage, perseverance and use imagination to unearth it.

A good novel is an intensely personal rendezvous between reader and writer.

A good novel appeals to emotions, not intellect. It makes you feel things deeply, and then you think about them.

When you walk, cherish the silence. Let your mind wander. The child within picks up crayons & begins to write.

I sometimes surprise myself when one of my characters says something I would never say.

There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.

Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.

The disappointment you feel when viewing the movie version of a character you've imagined while reading the novel.

Reading is the never-ending apprenticeship for writing ~ Mark Rubinstein

I truly believe a novelist must arrive at an altered state of consciousness to reach that creative zone where the fingers fly & the words flow.

The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.

A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.