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

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Travel
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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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Persuasion
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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Theres no great mystery to acting. Its a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. Its about asking questions and using your imagination. – Eddie Marsan

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Imagination

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. – Carl Sagan

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Imagination

Im kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination. – Don Novello

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Imagination

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Want to get ahead? Make life easier for those around you. – Dan Rockwell

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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didnt find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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