Books Quote by C. S. Lewis

“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.…

— Ernest Hemingway

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him…

— Iain Pears

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

— Wole Soyinka

The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good…

— John Cheever

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can…

— Ernest Hemingway

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he…

— Sarah Fielding

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley