I think readers' imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.
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As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
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