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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my firs

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. – Amy Waldman

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So the premise of The Submission is that theres an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and its won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. – Amy Waldman

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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire peoples imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

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I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? Whats a soul? Whats it all about? What is thinking about, imagination? – Jane Campion

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I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. – Robert Carlyle

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Theres no environment. Use your imagination. Theres no fourth wall, whether its the first time youve told this story about her life, or the sixth time. – Jill Clayburgh

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The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. – Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works

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Lately, Ive been a little sad that Im not a gay man. – Gina Gershon

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