“Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.”

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

“Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.”

“Katherine Anne Dugan had long ago realized that being pretty helped her to be a better librarian, actually stimulating interest in learning and reading. (from The Loveliest Librarian) ”

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

“Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.”