Our ability to experience life may be more or less limited by inexperience of art as well as vice versa, since each tends to increase the wattage of … - John Barth

I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.

A "limited imagination," as I understand it, gets things wrong. From its mere incapacity, like limited intelligence or limited physical strength, it fails to anticipate accurately and to come up with the really new or more effective idea. Never mind that even the most powerful imagination may not be literally unlimited. […] In the literary sphere, limited imagination is likely to be limited to the most conventional and obvious: a mere lack of originality in the material, the form, the treatment.

A book is what gets me off: something with heft to it, that you can take in two hands and spread like a woman. Mnyum!