Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country as I did there's nothing quite like country dark which was really black. And as a child your imagination runs wild.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean first of all it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also it helps your imagination.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories the streets the cathedrals of the imagination.

We can live with lots of things but we can't live without imagination we can't live without hope.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

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?

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I've got research I have my own life experience I can apply and I have my imagination.