"Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people."

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Source : "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

Ayana Mathis

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.”
“Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.”
“The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.”
“The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.”
“Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”
“No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.”
“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”
“Evie replied with an eye-roll. â€œDo you think you can manage to not steal anything while Iâ€™m gone?â€ â€œThe only thing Iâ€™m trying to steal is your heart, doll.â€ Sam smirked. â€œYouâ€™re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.”

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