Books Quote by Dan Chaon

Let yourself daydream sometimes... Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self.

— Nita Leland

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

— Dav Pilkey

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real…

— John Darnielle

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as…

— Jane Smiley

I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

— Bill Viola

I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of…

— Julia Stone

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

— Michael Salu

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

— Norman Lock

My writing is a picture of the mind moving.

— Philip Whalen