Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
I’m kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Nowadays people’s visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.