The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. . Stephen Leacock
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In the book Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses his own imagination to create an entirely new world. He takes a subject that many people already know something about and turns it into a fantastic story. He makes it his own by adding in characters and events that are completely new and inventive. In a way, he is using his imagination to write about something that has been written about rather than writing about something that hasn’t been written about.

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