Books Quote by Robin Sloan

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage,…

— Gore Vidal

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Elif Batuman

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

— Jean Baudrillard

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

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

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough…

— Diana Wynne Jones

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

— Napoleon Hill

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard

Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense,…

— Willa Cather

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

— Nella Larsen