“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”

“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. If he gets so he can imagine truly enough people will think that the things he relates all really happened and that he is just reporting.”

“I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.”

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

“in learning how to imagine x, you gain abilities; later you have all the relevant imaginative abilities you had before, and more besides. and you notice, a priori, relationships of coherence or incoherence between attitudes that might figure in the realisation of x; later you are aware of all that you had noticed before, and more besides. and you think of new questions to explore in your imagining...and later you have in mind all the questions you had thought of before, and more besides.”

“He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.”