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History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

— Carl L. Becker

“The lesson I have learned is that a failure to cultivate the imagination leads to an unintended neglect of the imaginative literature of Scripture,…

— Tony Reinke

“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full…

— James W. Sire

“...why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not…

— Elif Shafak

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is…

— Anonymous

Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]”

— Harold Bloom

“And if I may pursue this subject farther I would suggest that the whole matter of imaginative literature depends upon this faculty of seeing…

— Arthur Machen

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

“All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are…

— Nicholas Murray

“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of…

— Henry James

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

— William Empson