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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking th

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

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Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you cant know it all, and thats where imagination can work. – Geraldine Brooks

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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. – Geraldine Brooks

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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – Geraldine Brooks

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It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. – Kevin J. Anderson

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

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She kept asking me if the stories were true. I kept asking her if it mattered. We finally gave up. She was looking for a place to stand and I wanted a place to fly. – Brian Andreas, Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings, 1993

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There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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