Imagination Quote by John Gardner

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

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

— Dee Rees

A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is quicker to…

— John Gardner

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and…

— Cynthia Ozick

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

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

— Elizabeth Berg

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

I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so…

— Sefi Atta

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

— Judy Blume

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

— Brian Koppelman

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch