Books Quote by Nella Larsen

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

— Nella Larsen

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

— Allen Wier

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

People are not as imaginative as they think they are.

— DeRay Mckesson

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

— Richard Denney

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

— Terry Pratchett

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

— Brendan Kennelly

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

— Anais Nin

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

— Napoleon Hill

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

— Havelock Ellis