Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination but Sancho Panza.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately but write from recollection and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it it is the mainspring of everything now is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are the more you're forced back on your own imagination.