A Quotes
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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”
“A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.”
“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”
“A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.”
“A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.”
Source: Three Ways Home
“A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be”
“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.”
“A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.”
“A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.”
“A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head.”
“A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.”
“A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.”
“A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)”
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”
Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller
“A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.”
“A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.”
“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”
“A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.”
“A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.”
“A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.”
“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.”
“A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.”
Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
“A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.”
“A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.”
“A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.”
“A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.”
“A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.”
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something, when you need to be very intelligent indeed. The rest of the time, you need almost an empty mind, where you can let any image in, follow it along, and allow an emotional charge, almost the way actors and singers can work. The more instinct you have as a novelist, and the less intelligence, the better.”
“A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.”
“A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
“A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.”
“A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.”
“A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.”
“A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.”
“A novice always behaves with propriety.”
“A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.”
“A novice writer such as me tenuous, initiatory pen strokes usually are either dismal attempts to emulate through stylistic imitation authors of influence, or they are too preoccupied upon developing their own writing flair to actually communicate a thought. The emphasis upon writing with a definitive style naturally gets in the way of producing any work of substance. Preening amateur writers typically drown in the florescence of their own purple twaddle. Nevertheless, the only way to discover a mature inner voice that can speak to me and for me is to write with a ferocious stubbornness, gamely writing sentence after sentence until I can sieve valuable nuggets from a swamp of mental mire.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“a Novilíngua diferia da maior parte das outras línguas porque o seu vocabulário ia diminuindo em vez de aumentar todos os anos. Cada redução era um ganho, pois quanto menor a área de escolha, menor a tentação de pensar. Como fim último, esperava-se atingir uma linguagem emitida pela laringe, sem passar pelos centros nervosos superiores. Objectivo esse, francamente admitido no termo de Novilíngua "patofalar", que significava "grasnar como um pato". (...) Desde que as opiniões grasnadas fossem ortodoxas, o termo era perfeitamente laudatório; quando o Times se referia a um dos oradores do Partido caracterizando-o como "duploextrabom patofalante" estava a fazer-lhe um elogio caloroso e extremamente apreciado.”
“A noção de que a revolução começa em nós, mas de que sozinhes não fazemos a diferença, é muito importante. Ela deve ser a motivação para nos abrirmos a outras perspectivas e compartilharmos as nossas em prol da evolução da consciência coletiva. Para fazermos alianças, formarmos grupos e então irmos mais longe. É preciso estabelecer mudanças coletivas para uma evolução coletiva de consciência. Construir micropolíticas e redes de apoio entre as pessoas em que acreditamos. Redes transparentes, acessíveis e ideologicamente compatíveis com a noção de que fazemos parte de um todo muito maior. A abolição da exploração do meio ambiente só virá com a de todos os seres – humanos e não humanos.”
Source: Como salvar o futuro: Ações para o presente
“A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.”
“A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.”
“A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.”
“A nuclear test is not a nuclear test. It is an intelligence test.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.”
“A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.”
“A nuclear-weapons-free world is our commitment to the next generation. Our dream is to fulfill the dreams and rights of the innocent children of the future world.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth