“People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.”
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
