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"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
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"Dream is the realm most people live their life."

"The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions."

"Lies can open up the doors to imagination."

"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."

"If you appreciate, perpetuate and explore your own dreams,then you'll know that dream isn't a one-way communication."

"The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what's there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it. Our destiny resides in our imaginations!"

"Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds."

"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."

"At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid."

"Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains. [' Labyrinth of the mind ']"
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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."

"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."

"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."

"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."

"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."

"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
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