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Janet Frame [1924-2004] New Zealander

Rank: 104
Novelist, Author

Nene Janet Paterson Clutha ONZ CBE was a New Zealand author who published under the name Janet Frame. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography.

Imagination, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
I like to see life with its teeth out.		101
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.		102
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.		103
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.		104
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.	Imagination	105
It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.	Travel	106
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.		107
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.		108
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.		109
Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.		110

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