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Quote by Geraldine Brooks
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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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. – 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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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. – Carl Jung

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, its always been there. Its been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had. – Janet Jackson

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. – e. e. cummings

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