Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: … - Janet Frame

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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Janet Frame

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

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Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

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Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

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They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

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Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.

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