Quote by Janet Frame
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition acros

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

Other quotes by Janet Frame

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame

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Persuasion
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, were always in other places, lost, like sheep. – Janet Frame

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Imagination

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. – Ishmael Reed

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Imagination

Love is based on imagination. – Olivier Martinez

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Imagination

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. – Imran Khan

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Imagination

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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. – Walt Disney

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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too. – Yannick Noah

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