Logo
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

Category:
Persuasion
Author
Janet Frame
Read Quote

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
Author
Janet Frame
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947

Category:
Imagination

Busted is not the ideal band Id like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. – Charlie Simpson

Category:
Imagination

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. – e. e. cummings

Category:
Imagination

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a directors imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground. – Toby Jones

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access. – Blanche Lincoln

Category:
Health

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it. – Patrick Henry

Category:
Truth

But you know, theres something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention – they go home, theyre finished. They dont stall, they dont do their homework in front of the TV. – Dave Eggers

Category:
Home

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching. – Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Category:
Learning