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Quote by Doris Lessing
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. Ive been much happier unmarried than married. – Doris Lessing

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasnt gone away. – Laura Linney

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw

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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. – Gilbert Parker

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