Fear, feelings, imagination, story, fiction, life, art, analyzing, communication, nature, reality, honesty, mystery, melody, limitless, unknown, dreams, freedom, love, hidden.
Jackson wrote wonderfully at every stage of her career, but it's the later work, from her difficult last years, that sticks most tenaciously in the imagination, stories about desperate homebound fantasies and overfamiliar fears.
The title of the magazine was initially "Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy"; it changed with the October 1955 issue to "Imagination: Science Fiction", though this change was only on the cover and spine and was never reflected on the masthead.
The answer is simple: It's the imagination of story.
I know, I know: the question I should really have posed was which lover or partner or child had taught me most, but love is one of those emotions through which imagination and story play, alongside the body.
Without imagination, a story can't come to life; we can't step inside someone else's shoes, or minds, or families, or experiences; we can't conceive of a whole new world or universe or existence and see that space in our mind's eye as clearly as any other space we have visited.
Combine music with anything, be it film or an explicit concept, and it loses some of its purity, for the best bit of the imagination – the story – is done for us.
As the dark deepens it unleashes imagination and stories of ghosts and witches; dreams and nightmares populate the night.
Being brought up in a religious household and having a fevered imagination, the stories of the Old Testament took on epic proportions.
That cable network may be watched by only a small percentage of Americans, but it has disproportionate influence on the imaginations and story meetings of network executives and cable station owners.
It was those writers that I befriended through their books, and the teachers and students who chose to live within that circle that inspired me to stake my life and future in creating works of the imagination, my stories.
