The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness in a way fosters the imagination. But growing up Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most I don't know I can turn on myself and my imagination can take me dark places.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.