Imagination and the pure delight in stories drive out fear.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

— Wavy Gravy

“Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.”

— Carlos Roche

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life…

— Henri Bergson

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in…

— John Hodgman

“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a…

— Northrop Frye

“To the jaded eye, all vampires seem alike, but they are wonderful in their versatility. Some come to life in moonlight, others are killed…

— Nina Auerbach

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

— Allen Wier

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about…

— Lev Grossman

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

— Terry Eagleton

I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study…

— Terry Eagleton

“Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination,…

— John Dufresne

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

— Terry Eagleton

“The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all…

— Jeremy Hawthorn

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey