Honesty Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“[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

“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

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

— Judy Blume

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

— Elif Batuman

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, 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

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage,…

— Gore Vidal

That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.

— Pearl Cleage

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart…

— Tom Robbins

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes…

— James Russell Lowell

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

— Nella Larsen