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.

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

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 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?

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