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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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Imagination
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My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – 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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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. – Vincent Van Gogh

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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. – Sean OFaolain

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I dont like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that its your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. – Mark Ruffalo

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947

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