Books Quote by Csb

“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything…

— Barista Uno

“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a new light.…

— Barista Uno

“Memoirs are noting more than literary masterbation.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]”

— Harold Bloom

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

“The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I find it very liberating—as a writer—to test the limits of my imagination; and then to propel myself beyond them!”

— Jason W. Blair

“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.”

— Stephen King

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

— Gertrude Stein

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about…

— Robin Sloan