[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.
Source: In Faces of Fantasy, by Patti Perret.
-- Patricia McKillip, (Feb 29 1948-____), US science fiction writer; She won the World Fantasy Award in 1975 for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Locus Award in 1980 for Harpist in the Wind.