Art Quote by Jonathan Lethem

The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my…

— Michael Hersch

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking…

— William Gibson

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary…

— Richard Grossman

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what…

— Martin Filler

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual…

— Lee Strobel

When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine.…

— Miranda July

“The special problem here is that the artistic medium of fiction writers—language—is not innately sensual. The medium is unforgiving whenever we look for it…

— Robert Olen Butler

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

— Anonymous

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

— Aberjhani

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami