Imagination is the first step toward creation; without it, w... - Joyce Carol Oates

This quote is attributed to Joyce Carol Oates.

"Imagination is the first step toward creation; without it, we are bound by what already exists."

Joyce Carol Oates Imagination

Novelist American Born 1938 (age 88)

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