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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. - Ian Mcewan

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. – Ian Mcewan

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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. – Ian Mcewan

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Experience
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. – Ian Mcewan

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strength
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They werent able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. – Ian Mcewan

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Imagination
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Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision whats in their imagination. Whats the world going to look like when theyre my age? That really does take a huge imagination. – Richard Lugar

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Imagination

I dont think its possible to touch peoples imagination today by aesthetic means. – J. G. Ballard

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Imagination

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. – Marcus Aurelius

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Imagination

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Imagination

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