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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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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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Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. – 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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When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. – Tuli Kupferberg

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On Into The Wild I spent months risking my life and on Speed Racer I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. – Emile Hirsch

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If you dont pay attention and if your imagination isnt pretty much engaged, youre going to miss things and youre going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be. – Bruce Greenwood

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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. – Whoopi Goldberg

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