Aesthetic Quote by A. S. Byatt

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

— Cynthia Ozick

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the…

— Julius Lester

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

— Nella Larsen

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

— Nora Roberts

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read…

— A. Edward Newton

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

— Dee Rees

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang