Top 100 Imagination Writing Quotes
#1. Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.
Michael J. Kannengieser
#2. 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion
#3. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#4. Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
George Bernard Shaw
#5. My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
Barbara Corcoran
#6. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#7. Both reading and writing are experiences
lifelong
in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
Eudora Welty
#8. It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.
S.A. Tawks
#10. My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I'm sitting in front of a typewriter.
Gary Reilly
#11. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#12. The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.
S.A. Tawks
#13. Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
Ian McEwan
#14. If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they're better off dead.
Susan Spann
#16. For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
Eudora Welty
#18. I always knew Fitz would wind up writing; although I figured he'd be a poet or a storyteller. He would play with language the way other children played with stones and twigs, building structures for the rest of us to decorate with our imagination.
Jodi Picoult
#19. Writing opens the door to imagination.
Joe Evener
#20. What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?
You focus on the really good ones!
Storm Princeholm
#21. Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.
S.A. Tawks
#22. A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.
Sara Sheridan
#23. Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.
Ayana Mathis
#24. English is like a poetic extension of myself. It holds my creativity and imagination in blissful and inspiring captivity. Though I consider myself not a prisoner, but rather a valued guest of honor.
Storm Princeholm
#26. I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.
J.K. Rowling
#27. The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
Danielle M. Maistry
#28. Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.
Desi Puspitasari
#29. Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.
Khaled Talib
#30. Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Janet Frame
#31. Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
Sara Sheridan
#32. My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.
F.K. Preston
#33. They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.
S.A. Tawks
#34. I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
Ellen Glasgow
#36. Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Philip Jose Farmer
#37. One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
#38. It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.
Don Roff
#39. You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.
S.A. Tawks
#40. Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.
S.A. Tawks
#41. I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.
Maureen Howard
#42. My main objective in writing is to open the minds of my readers, to say 'the world can be a wonderful place - its possibilities are open to you and your imagination'.
Gary Crew
#43. Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.
Maurice Sendak
#44. If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.
Robert McKee
#45. On writing...
"It's a walk into the darkest corners of my imagination where my nightmares fester until something living and breathing escapes onto the screen of my laptop." JET
J.E. Taylor
#46. I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.
Regina Taylor
#47. I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.
S.A. Tawks
#48. I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.
Lisa Cholodenko
#49. You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.
S.A. Tawks
#51. In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.
Umberto Eco
#53. Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
W.P. Kinsella
#54. Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
Robert Creeley
#55. Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.
John Darnielle
#56. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.
Fennel Hudson
#58. Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.
Carl Sagan
#59. When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.
S.A. Tawks
#60. It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.
S.A. Tawks
#61. You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
Adrienne Rich
#62. Tales of triumph are my favourite.
S.A. Tawks
#63. Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
Haruki Murakami
#64. With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.
April Mae Monterrosa
#65. Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.
S.A. Tawks
#66. We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.
Sue Monk Kidd
#67. When I as reading and writing, I was in that exhilarating place where the life of the imagination is more real than the tiles and soil and rock under my feet.
Deborah Lawrenson
#68. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.
Diana Jane Heath
#69. It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.
S.A. Tawks
#70. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#71. You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.
S.A. Tawks
#72. It takes almost as much imagination to justify what you write as it does to write it.
Stephen Sondheim
#73. I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#74. I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
Patricia Hampl
#75. You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff.
David Foster Wallace
#76. Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.
S.A. Tawks
#77. The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell.
S.A. Tawks
#78. No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.
S.A. Tawks
#79. A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Caroline Gordon
#80. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
John Green
#81. Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#82. If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.
S.A. Tawks
#83. Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination.
William H Gass
#84. Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.
Stephen King
#85. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#86. Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
Janey Colbourne
#87. We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.
Alan Brennert
#88. Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands.
The only difference between writing and masturbation is one is presumably intended for a mass audience.
Mark Bell
#89. I fix the cramped, lined pages
with my curious stare. How do you
come to exist?
Kiera Woodhull
#90. What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.
R.M. Engelhardt
#91. An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#93. I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.
Sefi Atta
#94. Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?
S.A. Tawks
#95. To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.
DiAnn Mills
#96. It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.
Jostein Gaarder
#97. Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.
S.A. Tawks
#98. Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?
S.A. Tawks
#99. I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
Kurt Vonnegut
#100. Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.
Robert Hass
