J. M. Coetzee Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Imagination, Imagine

  J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

• Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the existence of Marion Bloom...Marion Bloom was a figment of James Joyce's imagination. If I can think my way into the existence of a being who has never existed, then I can think my way into the existence of a bat or a chimpanzee or an oyster, any being with whom I share the substrate of life.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sunset, Fire, Self

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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