Audacious Quote by Martin Amis

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap,…

— Zoe Kazan

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among…

— Rose Macaulay

I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid…

— Aleksandar Hemon

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a…

— George Saunders

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were…

— Ronald Frame

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut

...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

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight