Imagination Quote by Dan Simmons

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

— Hisham Matar

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making…

— Julia Glass

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate…

— Rohinton Mistry

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives…

— Northrop Frye

“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours”

— Carl Henegan

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think…

— Ayana Mathis