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

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

Category:
Travel
Read Quote

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

Category:
Persuasion
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

Ill confess right here that I secretly wish Id have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. – Berkeley Breathed

Category:
Imagination

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

Category:
Imagination

Ive got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. – Chris Cooper

Category:
Imagination

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isnt there anymore. – Rob Bell

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

Ive suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. – Richard Armour

Category:
Suffering

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott

Category:
Love

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. – Benjamin Britten

Category:
Beauty

After marriage, a womans sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a mans so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her. – Helen Rowland

Category:
Marriage