Home / Quotes / Quote by Vera Nazarian

Quote by Vera Nazarian

“I am a novelist at heart.”

Author

Vera Nazarian is an American writer born on May 25, 1966. Her works span various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and essays. She explores diverse themes such as history, culture, love, and human nature in her writing. more

“The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.”

World Long Doe Play Whole Character Might Pleasure Fiction Rich Growing Stones Satisfaction Complexity Just One Imaginary Necklaces Immersion Imaginary World Long Deep

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.”

World Interest My Own Roots East Desert Los Angeles Artificial Stem Antiquity Old World Oasis

Author:Vera Nazarian

“It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.”

Law Justice Impossible Owners

Author:Arthur Baer

“I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths. Both are vast, harsh, implacable, homogenous to the untrained eye, and beautiful. Bothallow the wind to roam on the surface. And both serve as wonderful vehicles for human survival stories.”

Humans Stories Eye Beautiful Wonderful Wind Ocean Survival Depth Metaphor Surface Desert Vehicle Harsh Desolation Counterparts

Author:Vera Nazarian

“A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.”

Wells Made Dream Dangerous Rose Edges Desert Intensity Exploring Compass Juxtaposition

Author:Vera Nazarian

“In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.”

World Giving Water Elements Ocean Opposites Desert Islands Theme Desirable Anchors Precarious

Author:Vera Nazarian

“The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.”

Mystery Illusion Ideals Surface Endless Desert Layers Blank Slate Pseudo Blank Slates

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of the Compass Rose. Ris has gone through the whole spectrum of personal change and has had the longest road of all. And in the end she chooses to come back to the world, to guide, and to help, and to open the eyes of those who are suffering. In that is her true strength and humorous wisdom. I really do like her a whole lot.”

World Ends Whole Character Helping Dream Eye Suffering Gone Particular Humorous Rose Guides Spots Goddess Compass Spectrum Like Her Chameleon True Strength Personal Change Tricksters

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as I delve into their innermost motivations and live out their lives.”

Whole Character Motivation Given Results Focus Progress Groups Dear Work In Progress

Author:Vera Nazarian

Quote by Vera Nazarian

Author

You May Also Like