„[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.“

— James Joyce

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„Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.“
— Woodrow Wilson
„A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.“
— William Faulkner
„Most fiction writers uses dreams decoratively without relating them to daily life, but the contemporary writer is becoming more expert at detecting the influence of one upon the other.“
— Anaïs Nin
„The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.“
— Henry Miller
„Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.“
— Virginia Woolf