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"If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off."
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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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"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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"My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me."
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"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
Writing
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
Being
"Half my life is an act of revision."
Life
"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."
Life
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
Reading
"No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him."
Family
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
Business
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
Reason
"Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy."
Nostalgia
"If you care about something you have to protect it " If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
Courage
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