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.
Source: The Envoy from Mirror City, vol. 1, ch. 20, 1985.
-- Janet Frame, (Aug 28 1924-2004), New Zealander novelist, short-story writer, poet; Her works include Intensive Care and Owls Do Cry.