Books Quote by Norman Lock

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of…

— Bill Viola

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single reader.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a…

— Dan Chaon

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought…

— Sam Abell

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

— Jeanette Winterson

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

— Shirin Neshat

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

— Bill Viola

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are…

— Anne Sexton

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

— Jack Prelutsky