Plato Quotes

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.

I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.