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"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
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"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."
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"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."
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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
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"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."
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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."
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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
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"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."
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"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"
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"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."
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"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
Hope

"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"
Thought

"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
Choice

"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."
Family

"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing

"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."
Time

"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
Family

"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."
Bible

"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."
Burden

"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."
Pain
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