Book Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The…

— Michael Ende

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

— Nate Lowman

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

— L. Frank Baum

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several…

— Louise Erdrich

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

— Socrates

I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of phrase, and…

— Sarah Weinman

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental…

— Ted Hughes

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

“Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without a doubt,…

— Ken Pugh