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

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

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
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. – Meryl Streep

Category:
Imagination

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. Thats why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. – Vivien Leigh

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Victory

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. – Martin Luther

Category:
Integrity

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs – a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church. – Peter Jurasik

Category:
relationship

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs. Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too! – Tom Peters

Category:
cool