Janet Frame - Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an u...

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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.

Janet Frame

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Das Schreiben eines Romans ist nicht nur eine Einkaufsexpedition über die Grenze in ein unwirkliches Land, es wird Stunden und Jahre in den Fabriken, den Straßen und den Kathedralen der Phantasie verbracht.

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