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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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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. – Dean R. Koontz, Seize the Night

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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. – Shirley Hazzard

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My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. – Tom Waits

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I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. – Anton Chekhov

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The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and theyre all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. – Tom Hanks

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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