Quote by Amy Waldman
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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Knowledge
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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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design
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The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Imagination

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. – Leonard Orr

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Imagination

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. – Stephen Leacock

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Imagination

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. – J. K. Rowling

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Imagination

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Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. – Jules Feiffer

You cannot travel within and stand still without. – James Lane Allen

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Travel

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. Its not the body-the body will change. – Amber Valletta

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Change

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. – Charles Horton Cooley

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People