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

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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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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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Imagination creates some big monsters. – Olivier Martinez

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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. – Duane Michals, Real Dreams

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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something. – Mo Rocca

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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. – Mason Cooley

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