"My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic."

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Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

Frances Hardinge

#Children Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”
“The thing thats caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - thats something I really havent grasped the whole entirety of yet.”
“If I'm playing country, I gotta have my country hat and my cowboy boots. I gotta have a voice, and the third thing, I gotta have I guess a little music to keep me in the right mind, a little pre-show something to get ya going. Lots of AC/DC, or I'll sit on youtube and find all kinds of stuff before we take the stage to get pumped up.”
“I was very keen on playing a victim.”
“The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lover's hire.”
“Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.”
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”
“Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.”

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