Imagination must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.
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I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.Patricia McKillip
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it in writing, in art.
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Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad range of emotional context that can't be transformed into food for the imagination.
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Those who fear the imagination condemn it something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.
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