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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination. -- Vikas Swarup
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities. -- Abraham Verghese
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. -- Carl Clinton Van Doren
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. -- Federico Fellini
I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination. -- Vera Nazarian
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. -- Paula Fox
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. -- Northrop Frye
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. -- Charles Simic
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. -- Andrew Bird
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. -- Northrop Frye
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying. -- Ivan KlÃma
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. -- Robert Aris Willmott
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination. -- Julius Lester
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. -- Charles Colson

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