Books Quote by Tim Campbell

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

— Philip Gerard

“Through them, the story becomes an argument for a better way of seeing, which has always struck me as being one of the novel’s…

— Dinaw Mengestu

And so we can conclude that the reader's imagination is better than that of the director's.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them…

— Jonathan Swift

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

— Mary Wesley

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as…

— Alan Bennett

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising…

— Anthony Browne

A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or…

— Jay Neugeboren

“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.”

— Claire Wingfield