Another Quote by Eudora Welty

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

— Eudora Welty

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] 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

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

— Dani Shapiro

“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

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

— Jincy Willett

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

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

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

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

— Tom Clancy

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

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster