Imagination Quote by Elif Batuman

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

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

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I…

— Isabel Allende

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

“[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

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

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

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction.…

— J. W. Lord

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

— Hisham Matar