Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.