Imagination Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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

“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

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

— Anonymous

Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense,…

— Willa Cather

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in…

— Stephen King

“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone…

— Heenashree Khandelwal

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality,…

— J. G. Ballard

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes…

— Anonymous

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording…

— William Carlos Williams

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

— Elif Batuman

“I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be…

— Anonymous

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

— Judy Blume