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"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."

"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."

"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."
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"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."

"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."

"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."

"On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up."

"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."
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