Doe Quote by Eudora Welty

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last…

— Eudora Welty

“[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

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

— Jacob Bronowski

I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters.…

— David Grossman

In literature, you know only what you imagine

— Carlos Fuentes

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

“When I am writing a novel, the setting, the characters, the action is clear in mind when I start -- so I believe. But…

— P.D. James

“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

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

— Brandon Sanderson

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Sometimes life writes stories that nobody could imagine...

— Anonymous

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

— Jincy Willett