“Imagination is like muscle. If you don't exercise it, it shrinks.”
“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”
“I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.”
“Curiosity, imagination, inventiveness expand with use, like muscles,and atrophy with neglect.”
“Imagination shrinks from the consequences.”
“Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.”