Books Quote by Sarah Fielding

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood…

— C. S. Lewis

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play…

— C. A. Bartol

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.”

— Mark Twain

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

— David Foster Wallace

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.”

— Lara Biyuts

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain…

— Samuel Johnson

“I am a being compromised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

— Tahereh Mafi

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov