Imagination Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.”

— J.L. Bond

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind — vividly, forcefully…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From…

— Harriet Doerr

“Writing is mostly a mind game. It’s about tricking yourself into becoming who you are. If you do this long enough, you begin to…

— Jeff Goins

“Writing keeps the mind sharp and gives me the opportunity to exercise my imagination to engage the reader,”

— Ruth Ford Elward

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

— George Orwell

“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini