imagination Quotes

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

I grew up reading science fiction.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.