To me, its far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. Its far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. – Michael Haneke
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? – Bonnie Jo Campbell
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas
When Im not writing, I read loads of fiction, but Ive been writing quite constantly lately so Ive been reading a lot of nonfiction – philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. – Irvine Welsh
