
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Source: Works of Samuel Johnson
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
As quoted in The New York Times (2 July 1978)
“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
Source: My Side of the Mountain
Source: An Erotic Beyond: Sade
“When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.”
Source: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
Variant: Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Source: At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays