Books Quote by Pieter Geyl

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can…

— Ernest Hemingway

“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.…

— Ernest Hemingway

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

— Elif Batuman

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and…

— Simone Weil

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has…

— Samuel Johnson

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality,…

— J. G. Ballard

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in…

— Stephen King

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid…

— Jim Davis