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Novels Quotes

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels Picture Quote #1

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don’t intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance Picture Quote #1

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power Picture Quote #1

I don’t read that many novels, I’m more of a nonfiction fan Picture Quote #1

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier Picture Quote #1

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting Picture Quote #1

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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness Picture Quote #1

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance Picture Quote #1

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania Picture Quote #1

I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself Picture Quote #1

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on Picture Quote #1

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel Picture Quote #1

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The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless Picture Quote #1

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die Picture Quote #1

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be Picture Quote #1

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days Picture Quote #1

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them Picture Quote #1

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness Picture Quote #1

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I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn’t give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing Picture Quote #1

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres Picture Quote #1

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love Picture Quote #1

... there is... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun Picture Quote #1

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There’s some hollowness if they don’t Picture Quote #1

I don’t read novels whilst I’m writing one; I just haven’t got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone Picture Quote #1

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I’ve written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don’t really have a genre these days Picture Quote #1

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles? Picture Quote #1

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present Picture Quote #1

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world Picture Quote #1

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be Picture Quote #1

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home Picture Quote #1

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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels (Novels Quotes) For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don’t intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance (Novels Quotes) I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power (Novels Quotes) I don’t read that many novels, I’m more of a nonfiction fan (Novels Quotes) I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier (Novels Quotes) Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting (Novels Quotes) If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness (Novels Quotes) Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance (Novels Quotes) I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania (Novels Quotes) I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself (Novels Quotes) She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on (Novels Quotes) To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel (Novels Quotes) The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless (Novels Quotes) Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die (Novels Quotes) Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be (Novels Quotes) Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days (Novels Quotes) Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them (Novels Quotes) Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness (Novels Quotes) I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn’t give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing (Novels Quotes) Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres (Novels Quotes) Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love (Novels Quotes) ... there is... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun (Novels Quotes) I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There’s some hollowness if they don’t (Novels Quotes) I don’t read novels whilst I’m writing one; I just haven’t got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone (Novels Quotes) I’ve written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don’t really have a genre these days (Novels Quotes) We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles? (Novels Quotes) Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present (Novels Quotes) Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world (Novels Quotes) It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be (Novels Quotes) Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home (Novels Quotes)

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