J. G. Ballard quote: I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process ...

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense ...

~ J. G. Ballard ~

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