Book Quote by Maria Semple

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

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

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time…

— Paul Kane

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well…

— Dodie Smith

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an…

— Dirk Benedict

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however,…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

— Manuel Puig

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

— Dave Attell

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what…

— Dan Simmons

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth