Books Quote by Roman Payne

I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you…

— Eddie Vedder

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

— Havelock Ellis

“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From…

— Harriet Doerr

“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture…

— H Raven Rose

For me, experience is everything when it comes to writing.

— Kodie Shane

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

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

— George Meyer

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

— John Ashbery

“[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

“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book,…

— Nikki Giovanni

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

— Truman Capote